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THE SUX-FISH. LEPOMIS GIBBOSUS. 



THE SUN-FISHES AND THEIR ALLIES. 



Slowly upward, wavering, gleaming 

 Rose the Ugudwash, the Sun-fish 

 Seized the line of Hiawatha, 

 Swung with all his weight upon it. 

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But when Hiawatha saw him 

 Slowly rising through the water. 



Lifting up his disk refulgent, 

 Loud he shouted in derision 

 ' Esa ! esa ! shame upon you. 

 You are Ugudwash, the Sun-fish ; 

 You are not the fish I wanted ; 

 You are not the King of Fishes.' 



Longfellow, Hiawatha' s Fishing;. 



^ I "'HE " Pumpkin seed " and the perch are the first trophies of the boy 

 angler. Many are the memories of truant days dreamed away by 

 pond or brook side, with twine pole and pin-hook, and of the slow 

 homeward trudge, doubtful what his reception will be at home ; pole 

 gone, line broken, hooks lost, the only remnant of the morning's glory a 

 score of lean, sun-dried perches and Sunnies, and, mayhap, a few eels and 

 bull-heads, ignominiously strung through the gills upon a willow withe, 

 and trailing, sometimes dropping from weary hands, in the roadside dust. 

 Then in later youth came the excursion to some distant pond ; thf 



