Show MAKEUP OF THE SKATE As described he must be a peculiar denizen of the deep A breezy writer on natural history says of the skate lie is a bottom fish and flat like a flounder he ha i triangular body the apex of which forms the snout opposite the snout are his tall and a few extra piece of his overcoat which kind nature hu tagged on to him in case he gets corn and has to be mended ills tall ft embellished with a few spines till I 1 know tor a tact lie has a couil of eyes a bittle way back of his snout and right back of these are a couil of boles that extend completely through him these holes connect with ills lungs or whatever he uses to aleathe with and have an uncomfortable way of looking at you at the panr time as his eyes he has a mouth too but it Is on the underside of him and convenient for business it Is a funny thing with spines on the lip and when you pull the lower jaw th upper jaw moves with it a sort ot trap |