THE SOLE. 
When I went iown to the back door just now, 
I saw a man wno had some fish to sell : he had 
them in a flat tray on his head, and he put his tray 
on the step for me to see the fish. The cook went 
out to buy some from him ; she said all the fish 
were very nice, but she only took a Sole, and this 
she will fry for us to dine upon. You must look 
well at it, for it is an odd kind of fish : it is a flat 
fish, and it is not the same on each side ; one side 
is very dark, and one side is pale. Both its eyes 
are on the dark side, and it has no eyes on the side 
that is pale. It lies down on the pale side, so that 
the dark one is the one most seen. The Sole is a 
sea fish ; it does not live in a lake or pond ; it is 
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