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THE LADY AND THE TUNA 



"vexed with the puny foe the tunnies leap, 

 flounce on the stream and toss the mantling 



DEEP, 

 RIDE ON THE FOAMING SEAS.WITH TORTURE RAVE, 

 BOUND INTO AIR, AND DASH THE SMOKING WAVE." 



Halieutica, Oppian, a.d. 180 



