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Show A DAINTY STRIPED 0AS3, Thm W rr" 7-: ;olflel to 8rruabU ! tor lli L OOll. "Fish Id captWiv'," aa;d a naa Q( . long- acquaintance with fishes, "often become very tame, and (sometimes they develop peculiarities. In an aquarium that I was connected wit', once, Botae J j years ago, wo had in a table tank siz j striped bass, varying fron six to thir-I thir-I teen inches in length. Five of these I bass used to feed ravenously, but th'. sixth one, the biggest of all, would wait. , The Ave would rush up and hustle for I the food when it was put in. the water; j the big one would lie down in one cor-i cor-i ner and not come up at all. I thought he roust be off his feed, and I thovtght I'd have to get some delicacy for him. "But, one rlav w'n I had fed the others, the big one still lying on the bottom, I tapped on the side of the tank and held out a live killie. lie came up and took the killie sharplv; there wasn't anything the matter with him; he, was lively una all rio-ht. and I couldn't account f"r his holding back, except that he considered r. beneath his dignity to come up then and scramble scram-ble with the rest for the food thrown in the tank, and that he preferred to wait. "After that regularly I fed the hjr bass separately; after I hod ;.-. r), food for the rest in the i-.-uU I woei i hold out his and he would .jp ; take i1 out of my hands. I ' I iilnj in V this way every day for ton.- ,. ninths. C until we lost him and a'.l the rest oi I the fish in this tank by an accident." I |