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Title: Fish stories alleged and experienced, with a little history natural and unnatural
Year: 1909 (1900s)
Authors: Holder, Charles Frederick, 1851-1915 Jordan, David Starr, 1851-1931, joint author
Subjects: Fishes
Publisher: New York, H. Holt and company
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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nd tobelieve it when they see it. The aim of these books is toundo all the good that has been claimed or achieved forgenuine nature study. As an antidote to the Hauntersof the Silences we may place the older tale, equally wellvouched for, under the inspiration of which the other essaymay have been written: The Shag-eyed Shark.* The mackerel bit as they crowded an fit to grab at our gange-inweight; We were flappin em in till the midship bin held clus on athousand-weight; When all of a sudden they shet right down an never a one wouldbite, An the Old Man swore an he roared an tore, till the mainsl nighturned white. Hed pass as the heftiest swearin man that ever I heard at sea, An that is allowin a powerful lot, as sartainly you will agree. Whenever he cursed his arm shot up an his fingers they wiggledabout, Till they seemed to us like a windmills fans a-pumpin the cuss-words out. * Reprinted with the permission of the author, Mr. Holman Day,and of the editor of the Saturday Evening Post.
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The Unnatural History of the Sea i8i He swore that day by the fodder hay of the Great Jeehookibus whale,By the Big Skedunk, an he bit a hunk from the edge of an iron pail,For he knowed the reason the fish had dodged, an he swore us stiff an starkAs he durned the eyes an liver an lights of a shag-eyed skulkin shark.Then we baited a line all good an fine an slung er over the side,An the shark took holt with a dreadful jolt, an he yanked an chanked an triedTo jerk it out, but we held him stout so he couldnt duck nor swim.An we histed him over—that old sea rover—wed business there with him. A-yoopin for air he laid on deck, an the skipper he says, says he: Youre the wust, dog-gondest, misable hog that swims the whole durn sea.Mongst gents as is gents its a standin rule to leave each gent his own—■If ye note as ye pass hes havin a cinch, stand off an leave him alone.But youve slobbered along where you dont belong, an youve gone an spiled the thing,An now, by the pink-tailed Wah-hoo

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