Longevity of the Carp

Abstract

LAST autumn, being at Fontainebleau, I was told by the servant of the Palace there that the German soldiers while in occupation of the place during the last war caught many of the carp in the pond of the Palace garden called “Jardin Anglais,” and that some of these carp carried, attached by silver wire to their gills, little silver plates bearing inscriptions purporting that the plates were attached to the fish in the time of Francis I. and Henry II.—i.e. about 300 years ago.