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St. Nicholas [serial] (1873)

Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 107

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the sawfish. The speciesis well known to those who reside on orvisit the South Atlantic and Gulf sea-boards, and the saws are familiar ob-jects in curio stores all over the coun-try. This fish has a broad, depressedbody, and its greatest length exceedstwenty feet. The largest examples havesaws six… … A HORSE-MACKEREL, OR GREAT TUNNY, CHASING MENHADEN. (The great tunny is about fifteen feet in length when full-grown.) getting entangled in the fishermens nets andbadly damaging them in its struggles to escape,so that the fishermen regard it as a nuisance,and have to handle it with care in order…

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