THE AQUARIUM BULLETIN 



57 



Why the Goldfish 

 Clucks 



JESSIE A. DUNN. 



Cluck! cluck! cluck! 



We don't know what to do ! 



Our mistress says the water's fresh, 



But we don't think it's true ! 



We swim about both day and night, 

 Till mistress sits down near us; 

 Then to the top we cjuickly glide 

 And try to make her hear us. 



We cluck as loudly as we can, 

 With nose above the water — 

 She says, "Those tiresome little hsh 

 Are really quite a bother." 



But, Mistress dear, the noise we make 

 Is not to be annoying. 

 When at the top we swim about, 

 I'^resh air to find, we're trying. 



.'^o when you hear us clucking, 

 I-'resh water give us, i)lease; 

 And do not think we make a noise 

 To simply try to tease. 



Notice the announcement on front 

 cover. Many of our fanciers are at 

 the Front. Send them a copy of TAB. 



The novice who starts his first 

 aquarium is the one who needs the 

 kindly assistance and advice of the 

 fancier, for his trials are many, due 

 mainly to the fact that the dealers 

 themselves who supply him do not, 

 either through ignorance or prejudice, 

 properly advise him. 



Hardly a beginner who started with 

 Goldfish could keep his pets in the 

 same apparent good health they were 

 when purchased. Through his over 

 solicitation they are fed, watered and 

 kept in a warm or cold room to 

 extremes, and as a result soon droop 

 and then become miserable looking 

 specimens of pity. 



I have been through this and while 

 I should not care to qualify as an 

 expert by any means, I am proud of 

 the fact that I can keep my goldfish in 

 good health, barring an infrequent 

 one. In my earlier days I lost many 

 more fish than I cared at that time to 

 admit. 



The first consideration is a tank 

 with a great enough capacity to 

 comfortably house the fish; not less 

 than o gallons of water to a good sized 

 fish would seem to be a fair propor- 

 tion. Set the tank in or near a window 

 where it will receive a good strong 



WHEN THINGS ARE REVERSED 



