Show THE BLUE FISH fisci is the enemy of every fish not his superior in strength and spends his time very much like satan in scripture in coing in about seeking whom he may devou devour aso 1 6 thing comes amiss to him his ilia stomach is like hyder hoder ali all capacious of all things he eats fish till he is full and swallows clam shells and pebble stones that he sees moving through the water and along the bottom and bits of seaweed and a little of everything else to aid in his digestion and when lie he is crammed to a surfeit when you would imagine it impossible to drive the point of a knife into him with a hammer he will dash at a bone bait seize it and hook himself meeting meeting the fate his ravenous habl kabi habits alts deserve I 1 have never seen his equal for voracity cl A quiet ulet shoal of bony fish or porgies por gies sunning t themselves em selves in a still sea will be cut to pieces es and devoured by a few dozen blue fish in the twinkling of a fin these clipper built active fellows f will spring on them dash about among them th emback back and forth with tremendous speed and one blue fish fishkill will in thirty seconds have tilled killed and devoured head body scales and tail six scups or as many moss bankers hence they usually drive all other fish from the neighborhood except who lie in the holes and recesses of the rocks and thus escape them ex |