The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1900-02-10
Specious a1es Of Fish
Dinny GeWgan Surprised by q
Thin Grey Pamphlet

NNYHERES Dinny Gewgan? Z"
wv asked Prof. Coggins, coming
into Casey's with thin gray pamphlet
under his arm. I've got something
to show him.
"He's out in the court hitting up
the ball. said Joe, the steward of the
Handball club. 'Come in here, Dinny.
You're being asked for"
"Am /, now?" said Dinny, trOttihg
in, "Is it yersilf, John? I'm limbers
in up to cilibrate me sixty-ift' bert
day, come MKT Chuesda'. Lave me
take tin aces an I'll give yez a 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 for game that called for
you. / want to show you this book a
friend 81 mine sent TO me-"
t'A boo ool, is ut2 Sure, thin, I've
lift the spic-tayoles at home, said
Dim cunningly. "What might ut be-
about 6hot book?N
It q fish book, Dinny, issued BY
The United States fish commission, and
sent to me by my political friends in
Washington"
I. Z. VII p
alhe ltm sl stories the poll
tishuns do be teIlin'9 What fer wud
they sind thin to Won I dunno? WIS
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 I'm bring
ing it to you, Dinny. It's scientific
book, and there are some parts of it
that 1 don't just understand, and /
thought that you, knowing so much
about fishes"
"sure, thin, you KEN to the right
pless thot time, JOHN interrupted the
old man. ''I know livery bone in livery
fish's body in these waters an have
swallied most av thin. 'Tis a sorrow
that I lift me spic-taycles behind, but
do YOU rade ut out, an rade slow, thot
1 can di-gist the substantiousness ay
the skientifcal portions. Who writ
the book?"
"a man named Herrick; Prof. Her
rick"
CAV coorse," said Dinny, heartily
sT know um we'll He used t wave {
shticl ia front Of the orchestry at the
Shtar the-ayter. Tbot's how he's 4
profiser. So, becuz he belongs to I
Sout' Brooklyn fishin' club he thinks
he can write a book about ut! Thu
consate of the baste! He dunno tn
diffrunce bechune sandwOrm and {
lead sinker. What does he say|
.Perhaps it isn't the same man,
suggested Prof Coggins, but Dinn,
waived away that suggestion and bad
him read ahead.
''The title of the book" said Prof
Coggins, sis The PeripheraI NervOu
System of the Bony Fishes"
saints difind us, John!" said Dir
ny, with his eyes wide. "What lar
guage is that, / dunno?"
"That's the kind of English the
speak down in Washington"
ssNo, no, John" said the old MAJ
solemnly. "Av that's English Pm
dago, an III sell paynuts on the cool
ner."
"Oh, you'll recognize it when 20
get a little further along" said Pro
Coggins, reasurringly. "I'n skip th
first part and get into the heart Of it
"sllip ahll av thin wOrruds wi
Joints in thin, Denny requests
''They hurt me ears"
eWeI, how's this?" proceeded IL
other. she says here: In view
these facts, the present demand,
seems to me, is for minute and e
haustive study of the exact relation
of the several nerve compOnen
through the entire course of the Sc
eral craniaI nerves in few typic
fishes. The common silverside, M
nidia, so abundant about Woods HC
and other points along the Atlant
coast, was chosen as the first type
be examined These little fishes stal
about midway between the physost
NOUS and the physoclystous types
fishes (here Dinny was observed
vince 'and may be regarded as re-
tive, generalized form.
"That's what comes av Sout' Broo
lyn fshin' clubs, unused Dinny, in Sc