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LITTLE FOLKS 
CRADLES FOR BABY FISHES. 
You don't believe fishes have cradles? Well, you wait till I 
tell you about it. Perhaps you don't believe they go up ladders 
either, but they do for all that, and there are several odd things 
you'll have to learn about these finny fellows ; that is, if you like to 
read true stories, and don't skip these that I'm going to tell you. 
The Salmon — the fish in the picture — though she lives in the 
ocean, don't think it's a very safe home for her babies. And 
indeed she is quite right about it, for there are so many big fish in 
the ocean, who are fond of Salmon, that not one in a thousand 
would ever grow up. 
So the wise Mother Salmon takes a journey every season, into 
a fresh water stream, and away up as far as she can get, to find a 
nice, safe place for a nursery. 
