C. 0. D. 



Probably our C. O. D. notice, which will soon be familiar to the 

 little ones,^ if it is not now, is never seen off the coast of ]!^orway. 

 Yet there is the greatest place for cod in the world. During the 

 months of January and February the C-O-D — cod — come about 

 the Loffoden Islands from the south and west in immense numbers. 

 It seems as if all the families of all countries could dine on those 

 fish, and none be missed. 



They arrive in what the fishermen call " cod mountains." These 

 codfish are piled upon one another, often to a depth of more than a 

 hundred feet. The mountains they form are wide as well as high, 

 — great moving mountains of cod. 



If you have seen a fish-net, you know it has weights along the 

 lower edge for sinking it. When the fishermen of Norway cas*" 



' 0. 0. D., "Collect on delivery." 



