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St. Nicholas [serial] (1873)

Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 572

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rmousturtle in this way, and were told that even sharkswere sometimes captured by the aid of thesesucker-headed fish. There is another sucker-fish, called the Remora,to which the ancients ascribed far greater powersthan any our Reve can boast. They assertedthat a Remora, which is not a large fish,… … THE REVE CATCHES A TURTLE. would have nothing to do. The Reve stories, how-ever, are quite true, and the only question aboutthem which is at all puzzling is this: What doessuch a small fish expect to do with a great, hard-shelled, flopping turtle ? But that is the Reves business, not ours. 544 THE…

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