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SLIPPERY SOLOMON. 



when he saw a fish? Did he rush at it and gobble it up greedily, 

 without any consideration for its feelings? ]S"othe! He was far too 

 genteel and well-bred for that. He glided softly up to the fish, and 

 merely tmiched it, curving his long black body slightly at the same 



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time. Just a touch ; but that was enough ; the fish turned over 

 instantly on its back, struck as if dead, without life or motion. 

 Then Solomon ate it in a refined and gentlemanly maimer, and 

 looked up for another. Now, how did he do this, you ask ? "Well, 

 you see, that is why he is called an electric eel. Stored up in his 

 body, in a mysterious way, is a great quantity of that strange 



