THE SUN-FISH, LEPOMIS GIBBOSUS. 
THE SUN-FISHES AND THEIR ALLIES. 
Slowly upward, wavering, gleaming 
Rose the Ugudwash, the Sun-fish 
Seized the line of Hiawatha, 
Swung with all his weight upon it. 
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But when Hiawatha saw him 
Slowly rising through the water, 
Lifting up his disk refulgent. 
Loud he shouted in derision 
‘ Esa ! esa ! shame upon you. 
You are Ugudwash, the Sun-fish ; 
You are not the fish I wanted ; 
You are not the King of Fishes.’ 
Longfellow, Hiawatha ’s Fishing. 
^T'HE “ Pumpkin seed ” and the perch are the first trophies of the boy 
A angler. Many are the memories of truant days dreamed away by 
pond or brook side, with twine pole and pin-hook, and of the slow 
homeward trudge, doubtful what his reception will be at home; pole 
gone, line broken, hooks lost, the only remnant of the morning’s glory a 
score of lean, sun-dried perches and Sunnies, and, mayhap, a few eels and 
bull-heads, ignominiously strung through the gills upon a willow withe, 
and trailing, sometimes dropping from weary hands, in the roadside dust. 
Then in later youth came the excursion to some distant pond; thf 
