84 FISH. 



is this contract kept that I have stood on the 

 beach at Teignmouth and waited for the scan to 

 come in, and then have been refused even a mac- 

 kerel at double the current price. 



THE GRAY MULLET. 



Mugil cepTialus, Linnseus. 



This fish is a general favorite at table, and is 

 very well known to most readers. Its habits are 

 such as rarely to cause its being taken far out at 

 sea; it generally prefers places where salt and 

 fresh water meet, so as to make it brackish, places 

 near docks and wharves, and about the creeks in 

 and at the mouths of large rivers and estuaries, 

 where they are found in immense shoals; they 

 generally swim in a circle near the bottom, in 

 about a fathom of water, and will continue there 

 for hours, some of them coming to the surface to 

 suck in any animal or vegetable matter that may 

 be floating there with the ebbing or flowing tide. 

 They vary in size from the herring to the salmon ; 



