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ALONG THE FLORIDA REEF. 



gentleman Lad an enormous forefather, away 

 back in what is called the Tertiary period. 

 That ancestor must have been a hundred 

 feet long, with teeth as large as your open 

 palm." 



" What is this ? " interrupted Tom, striking 

 at a black body hanging to the shark, just under 

 water, which Long John now exposed to view 

 by turning the body over. 



" Take it by the head and pull it off," said 



Remoras clinging by their sucking-disk to the under part of a shark. 

 (Adapted from Brehm.) 



