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THE FISHES AND NEWTS.
" Have you ever been to the bottom of the
sea ? " I asked a little boy and a little girl, who
ivere standing close to me inspecting the tanks
in the fish-house. The girl stared at my stupid
question, and then smiled ; but the boy gently
chid me, saying, " No, sir, and I don’t want to go
there either!" " But here you are !" I
continued ; " if you haven’t been at the bottom of
the sea,—where God forbid you ever should
come, my little ones,—here a piece of the bottom
of the sea has come to you instead. All these
tanks are, as it were, heaved up from the mighty
deep, that we may come and enjoy the view,
and wonders, and social habits of the aquatic
world. Look you, it is only that marvellous
invention, a thin sheet of plate glass, that separ-
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