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Old Man of the Sea: Look him up too. Are he and Davy Jones 

 any relation ? 



It was really a fish : What names do you think of that might fit 

 this fish ? 



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coarsely marbled with a darker hue : What is the meaning of marbled t 



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covered with water : The author means that the rock is not always 

 covered with water, not the hole under the rock. Of course the 

 hole is always built so that it is full of water, else the fish would 

 perish at low tide. 



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love the out of doors with all your mind : Do you know what is 



meant by loving the out of doors with your mind ? Just this : 



that while you feel (with your heart) the beauty of a star, at the 



same time you know (with your mind) that that particular star, let 



us say, is the Pole Star, the guide to the sailors on the seas ; that 



it is also only one of a vast multitude of stars each one of which 



has its place in the heavens, its circuit or path through the skies, 



its part in the whole orderly universe — a thought so vast and 



wonderful that we cannot comprehend it. All this it means to love 



with our minds. Without minds a star to us is only a point of 



light, as to Peter Bell 



" A primrose by the river's brim 

 A yellow primrose was to him 

 And it was nothing more." 



Does the toadfish become anything more than a mere toadfish hi 

 a shoe before the end of the chapter ? 

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in the toadfish' s shoe : What does the author mean by asking you 

 to put yourself in the toadfish's shoe ? Only this : to try, even 

 with the humblest of creatures, to share sympathetically their 

 lives with them. The best way to do this with man as well as with 

 toadfish is to learn about their lives. 



