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`` We 've had enough of fish . '' `` Very well , '' returned the idiot ; `` as you wish . Hanging is n't the best treatment for fish , but we 'll let that go . I never cared for the finny tribe myself , and if Mrs. Pedagog can be induced to do it , I for one am in favor of keeping shad , shark , and shrimps out of the house altogether . '' The Idiot was unusually thoughtful -- a fact which made the School-Master and the Bibliomaniac unusually nervous . Their stock criticism of him was that he was thoughtless ; and yet when he so far forgot his natural propensities as to meditate , they did not like it . It made them uneasy .