The Bookshelf for boys and girls: Nature and Outdoor Life (1912)
University Society, New York · New York. : University Society · leaf 192
ou enterare devoted to fresh-water specimens, and thoseon the left to salt-water specimens. Among thefresh-water fishes are many that are familiar toevery boy who has wet a hook. Here are bull-heads, punkin-seeds, yellow perch, pickerel,suckers, several kinds of bass, and a large displayof the… … blue crabs, spider-crabs, horseshoe-crabs, andothers. Here are some sand-sharks with sullen,ferocious looks, and along with them are thepilot-fish that swim around with the sharks justas they do in the ocean, expecting to gather upthe crumbs of the sharks next meal. The moon-fish, in another tank,…
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