Show how tish figh LIVE livi in WATER VATER when fish ponds or other small collections of water are completely frozen over it must not be supposed that the fish live very ivery comfortably at the th bottom in their forty di brees degrees temperature they ghey can ait alj gland eland the cold very well weil perhaps as well as the heat but like human beings shut up in a close ro room orn they are poisoned hy by their own breath ardath the wintry sun is too feeble febue after lis its passage through the ice to exercise much delu the aquatiCI aquatic plants which would woula otherwise decompose the he carbonic acid and this accumulating cumulate would prove fatal to the ash did not br break ak hole holes al sst the tild sur surface hace tace lo 10 adm t the air and arid let out the mephitic vapor on this friendly service service be being 1 ing rin rendered dered the fish are seen rushing up to the aperture as dancers in in a crowded room I 1 whenn the exhalations exha lations become stifling fly to the open window 0 to o gasp they often rush to theu then own w n destruction forthe for the fishermen know what they are about I 1 nature Is is as beneficent a ai man min oil on such occa sidn g anddess an and dIess tess less fel fei feldish sel seln tish dish sh although the tile iceola large larget or take prevents the admission of f hea heat from the llie top there are agencies at work below belotto to counteract tho th dan danger er the springs by jy ovll which igil the itte lake is fd co coming min from fron til the COM corn parati ively v ely warm worm earth throw tilrow up a column of water which gradually era ura dually thaws the ice on the surface or 0 1 r renders it thin enough foe for the fainting in fiske fidi li s theli thell themselves lel lei iel yes ves to throw open her sash when the tha e cold is too intense for this process w when hen the very dry springs are frozen and the cov er ice bests i ests like a sheet of solid iron on ohp th lake what becomes of its inhabitants the earth unable to emit exercises its power in attracting water into its bosom and thug thu a vacuum is formed beneath the I 1 cew aich unable longer to sustain the weight of the superincumbent at rit afes ves VPS way may and admits air an and alight light ardd arid the waters beneath were it it not for their danger of suffocation suf the fc een boulde would be better oft ff as regards temperature than land animals and indeed deeb persons parsons who have fallen failen thru the that the water wat erTelt feit felt much warmer than th the e air |