FISH SKETCHES AND FISH STORIES 



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and are so cooked and served to the present day. 

 Elipertius Optatus, commander of the Roman Fleet 

 in the time of Claudius, sailed to Greece with the 

 object of obtaining large supplies of these fish with 

 which to stock the Italian Seas. 



So "there is nothing new under the sun." Even 

 Seth Green, our great and enthusiastic piscatorial 

 culturist, but followed in the path trodden by the 

 ancient fish culturists many hundred years removed. 



I told all this to my obliging friend, Mat the 

 engraver, but Mat said, "Cut it out! I'm through 

 with parrot fish, even the newsboys in the street 

 shouted as I passed: 



'GET ON TER JONAH AND THE WHALE,' " 



