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Title: Aquatic life
Identifier: aquaticlife419181919baus (find matches)
Year: 1918-1919 (1910s)
Authors: Bausman, Joseph E
Subjects: Aquariums; Fish culture
Publisher: Philadelphia : J. E. Bausman
Contributing Library: Harvard University, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Ernst Mayr Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Harvard University, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Ernst Mayr Library

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Aquatic fiitt 111 or yellow, in accordance with the objects near at hand. Hideous creatures are they, lying there silently, awaiting a fish that fails to perceive that stones such as they have mouths. Now the sand moves, a darting creature rises from it, and then slowly settles down—to become sand again. It is a great flat fish that, now we have located it, is seen to lie so close to the sand, and to so nearly resemble it, (jo now to tbe market place in Naples. There we find tbe same hideous crea- tures—sold as food. Here are baskets of the octopus, the same rubber-like arms, tbe same glaring eyes. This basket may contain a number of small ones, that basket a few arms chopped off from a very large one. Here are the repul- sive fish that resemble stones, there the transparent squids, next the cuttle fish,
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Aquaria in the Conservatory of the Missouri Botanical Garden as to make it impossible to tell where sand ends and fish begins. There are others about; we see their still eye look- ing upward, but no one can trace their bodies. The next tank contains crabs, with legs two feet in length. There are tanks of coral, of sharks, of transparent squids, the cuttle fish, and hosts of fish and crea- tures of all colors, shapes, sizes and habits. The water is as clear as air, the creatures live before our eyes, the most instructive object lesson of the world concerning aquatic life of this most inter- esting- sea. not less unsightly. In fact, whatever the sea breeds, seems to be a food for man, or to feed upon man. It is a question, I take it, as to which is the stronger. Some- times the man eats the octopus, again the octopus eats the man. Whoever travels as I am now traveling, needs leave his squeamish stomach at home. Ask no questions. Eat whatever others eat. That is good philosophy, and it is good breeding, too. Withal, it is but a differ- ence in education. The man who eats the slimy oyster or the slippery clam needs not criticize him who considers the octopus a delicacy, nor yet should the

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