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LITTLE FOLKS 
is not of scales like other fish, but of hard plates. In some Trunk 
Fishes the box or trunk is triangular, and in others it is square. 
He lives in the Tropical seas, and nobody wants to eat him. 
So I suspect he has a very good time. 
See this flat headed fellow ; he isn't very pretty to be sure, but 
he is very strange. The flat part of his head is a sucking disk, by 
which he can attach himself to anything — a large fish, a vessel, cr 
anything else — so tightly that it cannot be pulled off without tearing 
