BIETH OF FISH. Ill 



swims as fast as his tiny fins and wriggling 

 tail will carry him round and round in a circle, 

 and then plump down he goes to the bottom 

 of the tank and reclines upon his side, 

 breathing freely with his gills for the first 

 time in his life (for w^hen in the egg he does 

 not and cannot breathe). Even at this early 

 period of his existence, he seems to know 

 that a spoon is his enemy, for invariably when 

 I place a spoon near him or his brother fish, 

 off they scud ; they are aware that one of 

 these days a spoon will be the divider and 

 dissector of their cooked bodies, and think 

 that it is come before its time, and it is high 

 time to be off out of its way. 



In my boxes I was enabled to show actually 

 being worked out, under our very eyes, 

 many problems of nature ; w^hich problems, 



