FISH LIFE 45 



which may drift near them. Lying prone on the 

 ice we may see them poising with slowly undulat- 

 ing fins, waiting, in their strange wide-eyed sleep, 

 for the warmth which will bring food and active 

 life again. 



3rd. Fish. Master, I marvel how the fishes live in the sea. 

 1st. Fish. Why, as men do a-land: the great ones eat up 

 the little ones. 



Shakespeare. 



