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their nets among the mountains of cod, they feel the sinkers hitting 

 the fish, that (seems to have barely room to swim. 



Have you ever thought that creatures living in the sea have more 

 space than we Avho live on the land? If it wei'e not so, in time the 

 fish might all be caught and eaten. Some lakes and streams, where 

 too many men and boys go fishing, after a while have hardly any 

 fish left in the water. 



It is said that this can never happen to the sea. There the fish 

 have plenty of places where no hooks or nets can take them. 

 People may expect to eat broiled cod and chowder as long as the 

 world stands. The saying will always be a true one, that " there 

 are as good fish in the sea as ever were caught." 



QUEEN. 



A TRUE STORY. 



QuEEJT was an Irish setter dog. She was not at all proud of her 

 "blood," though she had every reason to be; but she was very 

 proud of her nine little baby doggies. Such cunning mites they 

 were, too, and as blind as bats! 



Baby doggies cannot see until they are nine days old, and these 

 were not old at all; indeed, they were very new. JS^ow, Queen's 

 master thought there were nine dogs too many, and he said, "These 

 bab}' doggies must be drowned in the creek." 



One day, when Queen's little family were all soundly sleeping, 

 and she had gone off to search for a bone, something dreadful 

 happened. It was just this : the little blind doggies were carried 

 to the creek, and all were dropped right into the water ! 



Drowned ? You shall know. 



Later in the day Queen trotted up to her master, and in her dumb 

 v/ay made him understand that she wished him to follow her. He 

 did follow her, and she led him straight to the creek. There upon 

 the mossy bank he saw — all cuddled up in a funny heap — the 

 baby doggies ! 



