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FISHES I HAVE KNOWN 



On cutting open its body strange objects were 

 found — empty meat and sardine tins, tin pannikins, 

 fragments of the ship's cat that had departed this 

 Hfe the day before, a sheath-knife, a clay pipe, and 

 part of a little child's foot and a sock, which made 

 us fear that the poor bereaved mother's conjec- 



KEIIORA (sUCKING-FJSH). 



ture concerning the fate of her child was indeed a 

 true one. 



The shark's skin — attached to which was a 

 remora, or sucking-fish, one of those strange 

 creatures with an apparatus on the crown of its 

 head by which it adheres so tightl\' to the shark's 

 stomach that it can only with difficulty be got 



