Show SHEEP OF THE OCEAN The sheep of oC the sea are the blackfish black blacic fish It If one member of a flock or school of these gets headed beaded Into a coral reef or shoal water or a granite granite gran gran- ite cliff for that matter and gets a bit excited about it he be will rush headlong headlong headlong head head- long and all his fellows will follow him as though he were leading a Balaklava charge into the Jaws of or death while all the world looked on and applauded And when the cohorts are withdrawn from one of these flyIng fly fly- Ing squadron charges and the roll is called there are usually great and yawning gaps In the lines of the school for fishermen take advantage of oC the folly of or the big fish and ter them mercilessly when they get helplessly stranded In the shoal water for this is an nn occasion of easy money surpassed only by hy the breaking to pieces of oC a ship of rich cargo on a rockbound coast The black fish Is a member of or the whale family and q a sort of vest pocket edition of ot that thiat great fish or water mammal Th The foolish fish ranges from ten to twenty twenty ty feet In length but is very heavy bodied for Its Inches It is coarse of fiber and of little value other than as asan asan asan an oil producer but for this purpose is an unerring source of revenue to totne the Che extent of 15 15 to 20 each The North Atlantic is the playground of ot the black fish and the fishing grounds along Cape Cod Is the section where they most frequently run amuck |