FISH, THE PEOPLE OF THE SEA 



sure whether this is an illusion of the water or 

 whether the colours change through shock on the 

 way to the surface. The nigger fish has a smaller 

 mouth than the hind and is more gracefully built. 

 Immense shoals of hell hammers are often seen. 

 They are a grey fish with a black tipped tail and 



dorsal fin. They are like the Margate fish, which 

 is a uniform grey silver all over, but with a touch 

 of violet orange in the mouth. Like the Margate 

 in colour are the chub and bream. The chub has 

 a much smaller mouth, though, which is also true 

 of the bream. The bream, however, is of brighter 

 silver, and is wider and more oval than either of 

 the others. It is much like the bream of our rivers 

 and lakes. The porgy or churchman, with its 

 excessively bigoted expression, is also similar in 

 colour ; the great head and unshaved, bald-headed 



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