perhaps you think that fishes were always fishes , and never lived anywhere except in the water , but if you went to australia and talked to the black people in the sandy desert in the centre of the country , you would learn something quite different . they would tell you that long , long ago you would have met fishes on the land , wandering from place to place , and hunting all sorts of animals , and if you consider how fishes are made , you will understand how difficult this must have been and how clever they were to do it . indeed , so clever were they that they might have been hunting still if a terrible thing had not happened . ' more wood , ' cried guddhi , and they all ran and gathered wood and heaped it on the flames , which leaped and roared and sputtered . ' we shall soon be warm now , ' said the people one to another . ' truly guddhu is great ' ; and they crowded round again , closer and closer . suddenly , with a shriek , a blast of wind swept down from the hills and blew the fire out towards them . they sprang back hurriedly , quite forgetting where they stood , and all fell down the bank , each tumbling over the other , till they rolled into the pool that lay below . oh , how cold it was in that dark water on which the sun never shone ! then in an instant they felt warm again , for the fire , driven by the strong wind , had followed them right down to the bottom of the pool , where it burned as brightly as ever . and the fishes gathered round it as they had done on the top of the cliff , and found the flames as hot as before , and that fire never went out , like those upon land , but kept burning for ever . so now you know why , if you dive deep down below the cold surface of the water on a frosty day , you will find it comfortable and pleasant underneath , and be quite sorry that you can not stay there . 
there was a fire on the land .
why didn't the fishes hunt on land anymore ?
why didn't the fishes hunt on land anymore ?