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Show FISH OUT OF WATER. Many Specimens Are at Home on the Dry Land. Many fish rut a much better f.-.Tiir. out of water than we do In It, then-; wo are accustomed to think of f : as Inhabitants of tho water only. For instance, there Is the ".v ' about," a kind of goby that at chli l '. walks calmly up on tho sand lu ' erect on two lutgo foro fins. With I ! gigantic goglo eyes ho keeps u s'- -lookout for crabs nnd such thlr-r n aro left behind by tho receding r Then wo nil know that vv- "" wriggle, snnkcllkc, miles ncro" t meadows to other ponds and r'. In Holland carp aro kept all t ter hung up In a net nnd sprln only occasionally with water. The Indian "shake-head" is r happy oven when his native i trf dries up. and lies torpid till the u't rainy season. Tho flying gurnard will keep nhw of nn ocean l'".or going nt full nj ' and fly for m-uiy minutes In quick -ccsslve Ilfghts of .100 yards or ho at r tlmo. Exchange. |