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The Spotted Goby, as we have already noticed, makes a nest under a shell, and guards it until the eggs hatch. Two other Gobies are quite common in the pools of our south coast the One-spot Goby and the Two-spot Goby. The back fin has the one spot, or two spots, from which they get their name.

"There's the place where you came from, little old one-spot. And I am going to take you back there. The Wandering Jew once stood here and saw his sweetheart in a mirage on the other side. He was afraid to cross. But he only had a sweetheart to call him. We've got that and a lot more. We've got a country calling us, the brightest, the best country on the map. And we dare try to go back.

A week afterward I butted up against one of the one-dollar bills the baker had given the woman for change. "Hallo, E35039669," says I, "weren't you in the change for me in a bakery last Saturday night?" "Yep," says the solitaire in his free and easy style. "How did the deal turn out?" I asked. "She blew E17051431 for mills and round steak," says the one-spot. "She kept me till the rent man came.

If a die be cast a great number of times, it will be found that the numbers shown will be about equal, that is, there will be an equal number of one-spot, two-spot, etc., coming uppermost. Toss a penny in the air, and it may come down either "heads" or "tails"; but make a sufficient number of tosses, and the heads and tails will about even up. This is the operation of the law of average.

They would be obliged to return to the Russian town they had left and make a new start, and by that time Johnny patted his chest where reposed the bill with the Alaskan stamp on it, and murmured: "Stay with me li'l' ol' one-spot, and I'll take you home." He cast one more glance toward the igloos. Not a soul had stirred.