I3O LIVING CREATURES, 



cruel ; and scarcely any fish escapes their jaws, except 

 the spiny perch family. Of the European cat, great 

 fish stories are told. One was said to have swallowed 

 a woman with a ring and a purse of gold. An appar- 

 ently true account, however, states that on the 3d of 

 July, 1700, a cat-fish was caught at Thorn, Prussia, in 

 the stomach of which a small child was found. But 



California Flying-fish. 



none of these stories need alarm the young fisher of 

 bull-head or pout. 



In mudholes and ponds in the country, are some- 

 times seen worms which look like animated horse-hairs. 

 Country boys are sometimes told that these wriggling 

 swimmers actually come from horse hairs accident- 



