CHAP. xiv. THE EQUOREAL NEEDLE-FISH. 291 



gave it a pull, when, lo and behold ! instead of a sea- 

 weed, she brought out a long spindle-like fish. She 

 at once took it to her father, who found it> to be a 

 splendid specimen of the Equoreal Needle-fish (Syn- 

 gnathus ceqiioreus), a fish that had never before been 

 found in the Moray Firth. 



BROADSEA, NEAR FBASERBURGH. 



A thought may here strike the reader. How was it 

 that Edward knew that there were six Gobies found 

 along the coasts of Great Britain ? How did he know 

 that the Equoreal Needle-fish had never been found in 

 the Moray Firth before ? And, last of all, How was it 

 that he knew the scientific names of the Fishes, the 

 Zoophytes, and the Crustacea, which he collected ? 

 The . names were, for the most part, Latin. Yet he 

 had never learnt Latin. He must then have learnt 

 them from books. No ! He had no books. He often 

 ardently desired books ; but he was too poor to buy 

 them. His earnings were scarcely sufficient to enable 



