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and swells up and, by what manner of mating is 

 beyond ken or guess, the Fry in shoals are bom and 

 bred and come to hght, numberless and feeble, a 

 hoary brood ; and from the manner of their birth 

 they are nicknamed the Daughters of the Foam." 

 And others of the Fry spring from the allu\-ial slime ; 

 for when in the eddies and tides of the sea a medley 

 mass of scum is washed up by the dri\-ing wind, then 

 aU the sUmy silt comes together and when calm is 

 spread abroad, straightway the sand and the infinite 

 refuse of the sea ferment and therefrom spring the 

 Fry innumerable like worms. There is not surely 

 any other race more feeble than the poor Fry ; for 

 all fishes they are a goodly feast, but themselves they 

 lick each the body of the other : that is their food 

 and livehhood. And when in their shoals they beset 

 the sea, seeking haply a shady rock or covert of the 

 sea and water}' shelter, then all the grey deep shows 

 white. As when the swift might of Zephyrus from 

 the West shadows with snow-flakes a spacious garden 

 and nothing of the dark earth appears to the eye, but 

 all is white and covered with snow on snow ; even so 

 in that season, full to overflowing with the infinite 

 shoals of Fry, white shines the garden of Poseidon. 



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