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Show gfDadd5 Fairy Tale ayjWf GRAHAM BOWER -- n viuim wiwmi wiow ' THE AQUARIUM "In a big aquarium," said Daddy, "there were ninny fishes of nil colors nnd sizes ond vo- I ;tt rletles. They ate djs. rTJWJ different kinds of aCVjvUljH food. Their ways Jfo "P wero different. TOR 8' Ju( "They had come W$M Sl from various ".PVfrKiA parts of the 11 il1 RWrtto Y world- nnd aiff(-'r" ts SSili L cnt wa,ers hmI y? 'W "jaj3y J,le' known. Bft-Jfe "Now they were tTS S nqunrluni which. Kt, ns you know, Is n yT ajyi?1 tunk or place for . VCZl Ashes. X&J m well, they -lOHft JJ R p 1 a g h c d and ,,. . . , talked nnd. many "The Sea Lion." ymon ma t0 tec them. "Ono day n great, great many visitors visit-ors came to see them and the fishes were waving their fins and chatting nnd talking nbout the busy day that there had been that day In the aquarium. "Hut tho Sea Lion was Interested In talks he had had with the people. "What he had said to them had been along these Hues: "The one who takes charge of us has a boat named the Sea Horse,' the Sea Lion had been telling the visitors. " 'Ho sends this bont out every onco In nwhllo townrd the sea. The bont doesn't go alone, of course. Somo men go with It. And they catch fish for tho fishes hero In the nquurlum. We eat each other you know. "Oh, yes, we're not fussy about such little things. "'Now I like herring nnd cod. I'm very fond of those two kinds of food. Very fond of them, lndeeil. I "They mnke 1110 good nnd strong. It Is nice to ho strong.' "So the fishes splashed and thought of the visitors they had hud. "They saw me,' suld the drumflsh, 'and I didn't do nuy drumming for them. If they think I'm here to show oft they're mistuken, very much mistaken. mis-taken. "Tin not going to show olt unless I feel like showing oft. Not 1 1' " They saw us and thought wo wero queer,' suld the puffers. 'Wo are, too, puffing up as we can nnd becoming fat to ordei or not to order. Wo con be eaten. We enn eat. So it goes I' "They saw us,' snld tho dogfish family. "'And us,' snld the bluefish family. '"Don't leave us out," suld the angel fish family. "'Nor us,' suld tho mullet fish family. "'We're here, too," said tho parrot fish family. '"So are we,' suld the salt water garfish family. '"And we ure nlso,' snld the butterfly butter-fly llh family. '"We enn't be pinched,' snld tho puffers ns they puffed themselves out. "The shark Is the wild creature, some INh reinnrked with u splnsh. '"Your reninrk Is true, but not orlg. Imtl," said another looking about with gltiKSj eyes. " True.' wild n black angel fish to n ycllowtullfd angel fish, and tho yel-low-tailed nngel llbh suld to the black tingel fish, "True, perhaps, hut who cares whether It Is true or not, I don't. '".Neither do I.' suld the school-master school-master fish. 'I should, I supposn. with a inline as I hme. but I don't, so yrrrtL. why should l tire- MixffzTr' tend Hint I do?' fi "'No reiiMiu at ' lr3!L; nil.' said the doe- JWj tor fish. M sliiiubl be thlnkliii; of ywMfiV V$. reasons ir I were tfol':k llxlng up in my ih&ii&" nnme. Durtnrs owctA I'm told, a 10 a) '-SwlrM wiib tlmlliig mil 'wTjMf this uud for ihnt. ?$n$$'$$& for colds and Jio3 tummy aches nnd Mvft&C ull such things. Voi 3iJ Hut nut l. nut I.' '-"v CTKKrl "'It's best not nn.. lo bother.' said n'LeaM the rainbow par- U 0ut" nd fish, 'l euro only for looks.' "Looks ure more Important rM.i the sen robin )sh. ' m '"Looks re fur more Important' snld another rainbow parrot lis, "a, j names ... 0 nice. .00. 1 nk ror example. 1, very nice , 0 S .oumlhandsoino nd iUh.m "So they splashed nnd tnlke.l but ;belr talk was not particularly brlgh or none of them felt bright as none f them were very bright I" |