Show FEEDING TAME CODFISH At Logan ne near the e Mull of ot Galloway Galloway Galloway Gallo Gallo- way there is a most interesting tidal fish pond A rent in the cliffs facing the Irish channel admits the salt saIl Water water wa Wa- ter through a narrow fissure protect protects ed by grating into a circular rock basin ba ha sin some thirty feet in diameter an and I twenty feet deep The The cliffs cUffs rise high all around Stone steps descend on one side toa to I IR a R ledge level leveled d Into a footpath t t th the waters water's edge No sooner does the via via- I 1 ito s footfall resound on the sW stairs I than th the green groan water hitherto m motionless motionless motion motion- Uon less and appat apparently lifeless becomes peopled with large brown fish arising from the depths gliding and dashing about In a state of great excitement These are cod which caught on lines in the sea have been transferred to this pond to be fattened for the table They are fed red dally daily by the keeper and experience has ta taught them to connect th the sound of footsteps with th thir ir mealtime Formerly a clapper used to be rung to summon them but this was no nomore nomore nomore more than a n trick of the stage The footfall on the tho stone Is quite enough to awaken them to activity Most of 01 the cod being water deep-water fish become totally blind bUnd in captivity from excess of ot light but they become so tame and accustomed to their keeper as not only to feed teed out of his hand but some fome of them allow themselves to be lifted out of the water One may witness the strange sight of a huge cod more than four fe feet t long dangled on the knee like a baby his mouth stuffed with mussels and limpets after which he Is returned to tho the water with a mighty splash On the table these fish I thus tended and fed prove much better better bet bet- ter than fish brought brought- straight from the open sea I |