1 68 Secrets of the Ocean [FOURTH WEEK 



Treasures from depths of forty and even fifty fathoms 

 can be obtained when a trip is taken with the trawl-men. 

 One can sit fascinated for hours, watching the hundreds 

 of yards of line reel in, with some interesting creature on 

 each of the thirty-seven hundred odd hooks. At times a 

 glance down into the clear water will show a score of fish 

 in sight at once, hake, haddock, cod, halibut, dog-fish, and 



LIVING SPONGE. 



perhaps an immense " barn-door" skate, a yard or more 

 square. This latter will hold back with frantic flaps of 

 its great " wings," and tax all the strength of the sturdy 

 Acadian fishermen to pull it to the gunwale. 



Now and then a huge " meat-rock," the fishermen's apt 

 name for an anemone, comes up, impaled on a hook, and 

 still clinging to a stone of five to ten pounds weight. These 

 gigantic scarlet ones from full fifty fathoms far surpass 



