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33 64 FABLED STORIES FROM THE ZOO.
twigs, which the fishermen had twined together
to accommodate us with, for a habitation, when
we were but spawn and small fry. After some
time we followed each other in a large shoal
to distant parts, and I have roamed about the
watery world all this time; but you know, as
well as I, that when one has been at school for
three years, one likes to come home to the old
place and see what changes have come about
This the fishermen know, and expect to catch
a good number of us to repay them for their
trouble. I was caught, too, and conveyed here
in a dark water-butt, but I can’t find my way
back."
" And you won’t, either, my friend," said the
perch. " I have been here longer than you. This
is a miniature world given us for pleasure, to
teach those big gawky human beings you often
see staring at us through our glass cage,
something about our habits. How strangely they
move about! What queer fishes they are, and
how dark it must be for them in their gloomy
atmosphere, compared to our bright and
glittering realm, where all is tinged with a soft
emerald green. Gather round us, little fishes,
and the pike will tell you a story about himself-
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