Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1865-09-19
Rig R;.b and Little Fish.

The Bay appears to swarm with large
fish. such a. sharks. sea bass, etc., in great
numbers, and they have eaten up or driven
out mos, of the smaller fry. In the waters
Of the Bay is being re-enacted the scenes
that are constantly transporting on the land
the big fish are eating up all the little
ones. The big financial fish Of the State
have eaten up and driven out most Of the
little fish. The sharks and sea bass of
Montgomery and Battery streets have de-
voured the little tom-cods and minnows
who once swarmed hither and IT, r
throughout the land, and have drive., .e
Smelts-who smelt destruction and fed
from tout Of the country. On land, as
in the sea, the big fish are constantly eat
ing up the little fish. The big mining
sharks have eaten up all the little stock
holding ish-sometimes swallowing them
raw, sometimes seasoning them with as
sessments, and anon cooking" them by
the "~freezing-out" process. The big
money bass have eaten up all the little
money herring, swallowing them with a
good dose Of interest-a process highly in
teresting TO witness, though full Of torture
to the little struggling victims. The big
grain specializing sharks have been for a
long time engaged in %devouring the little
farmer codlings, through a process known
as commissions, costs, and charges, and
monopoly. The big church fish eat up all
the little church suckers, and grow fat
and plethoric on high pew rents and SEN
sational preachers. The big political
whales, BY dint Of spouting and blowing.
have swallowed all the little political
shrimps, by means of which they ex-
hibit a large amount Of ~adiposity, yet
remain as hungry and v%oracious as ever.
The lawyer sharks eat all the tom-cods,
rock-fsh, suckers and cells that come in
their way, yet, like the political whales,
their appe,ites are unsatiated, and like
Oliver Twist, their cry is still for more.
The great merchant surgeons keep oil
swallowing all the small fry that come
within reach of their bill-ladlng maws,
and though blind and deaf to all below
thirty per cent. profits, they are constantly
in voice and never so happy as when ia
king a bit of q country sucker or a steak
nom q MOUNTAIN tEOut' AuS OAOhSi pAuS
fish feeds on all the finny tribe, great and
small-to-day lunching from the side Of a
whale, tomorrow dining from the ham Of
a shark, the nexs indulging in a rib from
the sturgeon, and so on-frst a piece from
this fish. then a slice from that, and then
by making food Of all fish kind he wakes
fat and gr W. scaly apace-nothing sticks
in his throat and he sticks at nothing.
There are sharks on land as well as sharks
the ocean, bas(e)S in the wants of trade as
well as bass in the briny deep; and wher-
ever they be, whether On land or at sea,
the big fish will keep on swallowing up
the little ones through all time. Shrimps
human, as we'll as suckers scaly, are made
to serve as food for the larger specimens
of their tribes. Poor little codlings! It is
| their fate to be eaten by the sharks and
other big fish, and why should we mourn
at the DEGREES Of fa,es Epicureans expo
rience no pleasure like that Of eating.
Doubtless the big fish revel in deligh;
while gulping down the small ones.
While submitting to the uuyielding de-
crees of fate, let the human tom-cods,
while being swallowed. take joy from the
| thought that they are enabled to minister
to the happiness and pleasure Of others.
By consoling themselves with this philos-
ophy they may in time learn to believe
that there is as much pleasure in being
eaten "a in eatinp,-S, +. Call,