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Title: Four feet, wings, and fins
Year: 1879 (1870s)
Authors: Maskell, A. E. Anderson- Mrs
Subjects: Zoology
Publisher: Boston, D. Lothrop and Co
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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a yarn ; and I thinkI wouldnt mind seeing one myself, said Frank. I wouldnt, said May. Theyre terrible. Theyhave such great teeth and large mouths that theycan just bite a man in two at one snap of their jaws,cant they, Cousin Grace ? They are the most dreaded of all the fishes.The white shark is the most terrible, reaching some-times the length of twenty or thirty feet. Themouth with its six rows of bristling teeth, looksterrible indeed. He will outstrip the swiftest vessel,and his perserverance is indefatigable. One willfollow in the wake of a ship for days, to pick upthe refuse thrown overboard. Dont sailors ever catch them ? asked Frank. O yes. A very large hook is baited with achunk of salt pork and let down from the shipsside. The shark no sooner sees it, than he swimsup, throws himself over on his side and gobbles itdown, the hook becoming fast in his throat. A har-poon is plunged in his body, and the animal liftedfrom the sea, and speedily finished with handspikes 454 ^m^mSukk
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Squalida, ok Angel-fish. THE FISHING PARTY. and axes. His thick skin is made into sheaths andcases, and his liver yields an oil for dressing skins.Their bodies emit a phosphoric light in the dark.There are more than thirty species of sharks, butnone so m.uch dreaded as the one we have just beenspeaking about. The basking shark, though aslarge as the white shark, is perfectly harmless. Itloves to lie on the surface of the water, sometimeson its stomach and again upon its back, basking,and will allow itself to be patted and stroked. Thenthere is the blue shark, the fox shark and others.The oddest looking of all the sharks is the hammer-heads. It resembles the white shark, except in thecurious formation of its head, which is like a sort ofa double-headed hammer, with eyes in each end,giving to the creature an extended power of sight. Grace then examined the papers of her littleclass, and found the following facts: Fishes are cold-blooded, Vertebrated animals,have fins in place of limbs,

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