DOWN STREAM 



the elegance of his figure and the 

 chaste beauty of his attire. He gleams 

 in the sunlight. His yellow and green 

 markings are as vivid as those of the 

 sunfish, yet arranged in exquisite taste, 

 and he is dapper where the other is 

 bourgeois. 



Sink a little deeper now, for it is 

 time you caught horn-pouts. The horn- 

 pout is also " bull-head/' and, irrever- 

 ently I fear, " minister/ 5 because of the 

 severity of his black attire, which is re- 

 lieved only by a white vest. But horn- 

 pout is the best name, for his horns 

 stick out fierce and straight from either 

 side of his gills like the waxed mus- 

 tachios of a stage Frenchman. They 

 are sharp as needles and set as firm as 

 daggers in their sockets. When you 

 outrage the dignity of a horn-pout by 

 pulling him out of the water he wag- 

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