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keeper, the doctor at length made a kind of pillow 

 for the fish, which was then left in the pond to its 

 fate. Upon making his appearance at the pond on 

 the following morning, the pike came towards him 

 to the edge of the water, and actually laid its head 

 upon his foot. The doctor thought this most extra- 

 ordinary, but he examined the fish's skull and found 

 it going on all right. He then walked backwards 

 and forwards, along the edge of the pond for some 

 time, and the fish continued to swim up and down, 

 turning whenever he turned ; but being blind on the 

 wounded side of its skull, it always appeared agi- 

 tated when it had that side toward the bank, as it 

 could not then see its benefactor. On the next day 

 he took some young friends down to see the fish, 

 which came to him as usual, and at length he actually 

 taught the pike to come to him at his whistle, and 

 feed out of his hands. With other persons it con- 

 tinued as shy as fish usually are. He (Dr. War- 

 wick) thought this a most remarkable instance of 

 gratitude in a fish for a benefit received, and as it 

 always came at his whistle, it proved also what he 

 had previously, with other naturalists, disbelieved, 

 that fishes are sensible to sound. (?) 



On hunting among the rock-pools by the sea- 

 shore, several peculiar little fishes are frequently to 

 be found, and although some of them cannot be con- 

 sidered suitable for the aquariilm, still, for the reader's 

 information, it may be as well that I devote a 



