The New York herald., 1921-11-20

pleasant enough Woru.
Gosh look at that frisky seal leap He
must be healthy to do that. What wonder
full mammalade he'd make
And still no whales. We must be looking
in the wrong sector. Well We'll try the fish
department A whale is probably a fish;
that must be IT, The fish are upstairs we
are told We wonder, by the way, how they
climb the stairs. Still fish could scale EN-
Well here we are in the fish department
Look at that school of gold fish! That one
over there with the little specks on his nose
must be the teacher
If there is loveer sight than a gang OF
gold fish with the sunlight playing on enl
we'd like to see 1t.
But gosh we are wrong These aren't
goldfish after all. The sign says they are
curassius aurdtus But they look like gold .
fish. Well bet the resemblance would fool
you too.
Here are the angel fish, otherwise called
as we need hardly tell you, pomocdnthus
parn. These may be angel fish, but we think
that flying fish, with their wings, are more
entitled to the appellation. But this is
needless frivolty.
going between two caldmus bajando.
or porgies, as they are scientifically
called.
Don't those spreclxled trout in the next
cage make you tired Phil?" one of EN- is
saying. They're all puffed up because their
signs reads the most beautiful trout in
America"
"I1l say they make me tired Lou" says
Phil. IF I was them trout I wouldn't be so
proud Of my freckes. I'd make bee line for
the first drug store and get somethin' to re-
move EN-"
you said it, Phil. They look troutlandish
If 1 looked like that I'd go drown myself"
Same here, Lou. Yet every one stands In
front OF their first winder and admires 'em.
If a cdranlus bdjando amt as good lookn' as
a sdIUelinuS fontendIis-I think that's the
Latin for trout-Ill eat my shirt"
That's the way I feel about it, Phil. Yet
a dozen guys haven't stopped to look at Us
in a week. If this keeps up I'm gonna move
outa this aquarium. I want appreciation.
And besides, the housin' problem here is be-
ginnin' to get serious. I hear a gang of
chtlisdusd juzsdrinos are movin' in next
week. And then there's that crowd of
5HNgodto chikkencrodketu comm up from
Florida in a month. If they try to put 'em
in here, there's gonna be fight"
Count on me, Lou. I've got a mean left
fin. The last fish I hit went to the dry dock
for repairs"
Song of the Neglected Aquarium Fish.
Gimme tumble I'm as good as anybody
here!
Looiit how nice glide along and lookit how
1 steer
And watch this dive didn't splash enough
to fill a thmbe.
Show me fish on land or sea that's anywhere
Stop lookn at that gold FISH In battle he's
uuitter.
Remember that thing amt gold because you
see is glitter
I've got as nice Latin name as any fish
a-swimmin'
At fetchin' bottom can give the cleverest a
trimmin',
I come from decent people Though have no
pedigree)
And though ! amt no beauty, there are
homlier than me,
I'm mannery as any C have very seldom
cursed)
:. And never have bit fish unless he bit me
first
The ungrammatica phrasing of the fish
that wrote that song Is surprising, to put II
mildly. fish that has travelled In school
all his life ought to know better.
~ UT this all beside the point We are
* supposed to be looeing for the whales
- Where are they anyhow? It's II
o'clock. Maybe they're out to lunch. Still
they'd leave sign. WILL RETURN IN AN
HOUR" and We don't see any signs like that
on with the seerch
What is that pleasant purrlng we hearY
Ha! the catflsh (or as you are probably in
the habit of calling them, the heTdnemdtich-
thYs felis). DO they also "mec-ow?" We
hope So
The catfish ne most neonia are aware is
one of the most useful of fish. It has been