Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1900-02-02


wv asked Prof. Coggins, coming
into Casey's with thin gray pamphlet
under his arm. ''l've got something
TO show him"
Hes out in the court hitting up
the BALL" said Joe, the steward of the
1landball club. "Comc in here, Dinny.
You're being asked for"
"Am !, now?" said Dinny, trotting
IN. rs it yersilf, John? I'm Timber
in up to ciIibrate me sixty-fft' bert
day, come mkt Chuesda. Lave me
take tin aces an I'll give yez game"
I'm to play the new man from the
old country this afternoon" said the
professor, ''and I'm saving my hands.
1t wasn't fora game that l called for
you. | want to show you this book n
friend Of mine sent to me-"
"a boo-ook, is ut? Sure, thin, I've
lift me spictaycles at home" said
Dinny, cunningly. "What might ut be
about, thot book?"
Its n fish book, Dinny, issued by
the United States fish commission, and
sent to me by my political friends in
Washington"
Some o. thin fish stories the polly
tishuns do be tellin'? What fer wud
they sind thin to you, dunno? Why
wudn't they sind ut to me thot has
caught more fishes ay more kinds than
amy mon in Brooklyn"
THAT'S the very reason Tn bring
ing it to you, Dinny. It's n scientific
book, and there are some parts of it
that don't just understand, and l
thought that you, knowing so much
about fishes"
''Sure, thin, you KEN to the right
pless thot time, John" interrupted the
old man. 81 know livery bone in livery
fish's body in these waters an have
swallied most nv thin. IT'S n sorrow
that | lift me spic-tayclcs behind, but
do you rade ut out, an rade slow, thot
| can di-gist the substantieusness av
the skientifical portions. Who writ
the book"
"A man named IIerrick; Prof. Her.
rick" @aA~-
SAY coorse," said Dinny, heartily.
81 know UNI well. He used T. wave a
shtck in front of the orchestry at the
Shtar the-ayter. Thots how hos a
profliser. So, bccuz he belongs to n
Sont' Brooklyn fishin' club he thinks
he can write book about ut! The
consate of the haste! He dunno tn
diffrunce bechune sandworm and q
lead sinker. What does he say?"
perhaps it isn't the same man .
suggested Prof. Coggins, but Dinny
waived away that suggestion and bade
him read ahead.
1.-The title of the book" said Prof
Coggins, sis The Peripheral Nervous
System of the Bony Fishes"
saints difind us, John!" said Din
ny. with his eyes wide. What Ian
guage is that, | dunno?"
"rhat's the kind of English they
speak down in Washington
mo. TO, john" said the old man,
solemnly. "Av that's English I'm a
dago, an I'll sell paynuts on the coor-
ncr."
s"Oh, you'll recognize it when you
get little further along" said Prof.
Coggins, reasurringly "Ill skip the
first part and get into the heart of it,
Skip ahll nv thin worruds wit
joints in thim," Denny requested
"rhey hurt me ears"
"Well, how's this?" proceeded the
other. ale says here: In view of
these facts, the present demand, il
seems to me. is for n Minute and eX-
haustive study OF the exact relations
of The several nerve components
through the entire course of the sew
eral crnnial nerves in few typical
fishes. The common silverside, Me-
india, so abundant about Woods IIoll
and other points along the Atlantic
coast. was chosen as the first type TO
be examined. These little fishes stand
about midway between the physosto-
nous and the physoclystous types OF
fishes (here Dinny was observed to
wince) and may be regarded as rela-
tive, generali2ed form"
"1hat's what comes nv Sout' Brook
Ign fishin' clubs" unused Dinny, in self
communion. at makes a felly like Her
rick Regard that sort av thing MS bein'
relatively simple. May | be skint for
neel nv | don't behave the mon had
ought The arristed