Show dry land fl fishes flies but tho the most remarkable dry land fish has a name aa as long as bis his body it is perl very cry kindly naturalists natura lists allow ordinary mortals rn to speak of him af as the goby the little creature Is about four or five inches long with a big bead prominent eyes and side or pectoral fins final which are more like legs than anything else the goby comes on shore and scrambles along tho the banks in search of food one ardent naturalist tells us that ho he took a shotgun and picked olt off his ills dobies gobies as is they hopped along the muddy shore as if 1 they were snipe the gobles gobies are tire common in new zealand where the natives native call them the running fishes on our own shores we h have a goby of somewhat similar habit this inoffensive creature lias has been called by nat ura lists the gobins sop orator recently a party of naturalists natura lists traveling in mexico and texas found some of th so little fishes and find confined them in a pall they remained in it a short time then to the astonishment of the observers several of them were seen clambering over the side of the pail pall and dropping down upon the tile ground when they proceeded to wriggle their way to tho the water not far distant they used the fins as legs and made very good progress when replaced in the pail pall they tumbled out again and could only be kept there by placing a board over the top of their prison Ilar Harp pers cra young people |