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Show YCUN'G CT THE FLOUNDER. How the Mother Provide for Its Offspring Off-spring Safely. Heferenre wan mnde In a recent Is--.tie lit (lie Liverpool Dally l'oflt to tlio mtule of securing swift and Bitfe loco-i.iollon loco-i.iollon uiloited by the young of the llylne To in t'lIiiKliiK to the breast of their Kile lit when hi lllglit. This Homewlint reseinblcH the conveyntice of (lie young by tho Unngaroo, thu Jnvu toail und Uie whale, and all nru well-established facts In natural history. his-tory. Hut another Instance exists, wnlcli, I venture to think, may not be fcj generally known. A small specimen speci-men of the flounder tribe frequents the Malay seas, that Is easily taken by rod and lino from (he shore; and again and again, after effecting a cap-tut cap-tut e, 1 have plneed the fish on Its buck on tho ground anil pressed lis bream lightly with my foot, with the result that a young flounder bus emerged from the parent. The latter I have reserei! tor the basket, hut the youngster I have forthwith teslored to the water, where, In every case, after a moment's) Indecision, It lias Bwum orf gallantly for a ni,l of two. aud then dived out of sight. |