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Show SELECTED. Combat Between a Fish and a Diver. An imerest-ns story is told by a piper published in the Isle of Man, which resembles Victor Hugo's account of the devil fish. A diver who was engaged in laying the concrete con-crete blocks under water at the pier works at Douglas, tuddenlv observed an immense creature, ot'a fishy nature eyeing him attentively with extended jaws. Judging from the expression of its features, that it viewed his proceedings pro-ceedings with disapproval, aud that its intentions were hostile, the diver thought it prudent to take the initiative, initia-tive, and he accordingly thrust one of his tools into the creature's mouth. Then commenced a fearful struggle. The superior weight and science of the diver, however, gave him an advantage over the monster, who soon showed symptoms of distress; the diver immediately imme-diately signaled to the man in charge of the pump and was apidly drawn to the surface, bearing with him triumphantly triumph-antly the body of his exhausted antagonist, an-tagonist, which proved to be a toad-fish toad-fish or fishing frog. It measured from the tip of the snout to the point of the tail four feet six inches, across the shoulder from fin to fiu, three feet, and across the mouth extem.ing vertically and horizontally ten or twelve inches; and but fur his size he was sufficiently loathsome and offensive in appearand! to render him a pleasing addition to any private aquarium. AVio Age. |
