Show t FIGHTING FISH Betta Pugnax the Gamecock of the Sea The inhabitants of Cochin China and Slam have known the fighting capacity of a savage little fish for many years and have long been in the habit of making matches between those owned by different men Just as the Mexicans match their game cocks and some Americans and Englishmen their bull pups When a match is made the parties to it having laid their bets bring thelrspeclmens of the fierce little Betta Pugnax in globes of water Both are put Into one globe and without a moments hesitation they fly at one another with tooth and fin and do not cease fighting until one of the combatants combat-ants is killed by the other The males are much larger and more savage fighting fight-ing as If for the sport of the thing but to the death I is only a year or two since specimens of this fish were brought to Paris but In that city where some new excitement is so eagerly eager-ly awaited it did not take long for the fighting fish to be admitted to sporting circles Now many are owned in Paris and it is said that the demand for good specimens Is constantly on the Increase Hitherto it was known that different kinds of fish would fight with one another an-other or sometimes angry whales would wage battles royal for supremacy in the herd but it remained for the Betta Pugnax to tale a place as a fighting fish par excellence They are beauti I I I I I i 1 THE BETTA PUGNAX GREATEST FIGHTING FISH fully spotted with red and blue and would attract attention In any aquarium aquar-ium by their colors alone The savage nature behind the beauty would hardly be suspected |