Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 451
ar relative, Chcetodon restratusby name, which inhabits the Chinese seas andrivers,—a beautifully colored fish, which may becalled an animated rifle, from the fact that it shoots,not a shower of drops, like the Toxotes, but asingle drop, bringing down its game with wonder-ful certainty and… … AN ANIMATED SHOT-GUN. suppose that a fish furnished with a rifle is able to a longer range than one which is obliged to shootbring down its game with greater accuracy and at with a shot-gun, and a single-barreled one at that. 1876.1 BURNING PEACHES. 425 BURNING PEACHES.By Ellen Bertha Bradley. One…
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