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ISH are not named at the beginning 

 of life, as people are. When they 

 finally are, the name is not a word, 

 but an attitude. A fish's name to other fish 

 is the mental impression they have of him, 

 inarticulate but real. 



Leaper is the name of one of the fish of 

 our school, not because he is so addressed 

 by the others, but because the dominant 

 thought of him is that he leaps through and 

 out of the water more gracefully than any 

 other member of the family. 



Had they been possessed of words, as we 

 are, they would have named him accord- 

 ingly. Lacking these, they simply had the 



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