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The sun-fish was a favorite model, but its form was generally employed in vessels with upright necks. A number of examples occur in the next section. Of reptilian forms the frog seems to have been the favorite. Few examples occur, however, in the shallower vessels. The rim is ornamented with a series of notches, and two small loops connect the rim with the head and tail of the creature.
Carolyn June stared, apparently stricken dumb by the antics of the struggling animal. "Sun-fish! Go to it you poor deluded son-of-sorrow!" The Ramblin' Kid, who, unnoticed by Carolyn June and Skinny, at that moment had come from the corral and stood leaning against the fence, chuckled half pityingly, yet making no move toward the creature.
Some fish have the power of emitting light. Some species of the shark emit a greenish light; and the sun-fish is said, when seen down in the sea on a dark night, to glow like a white-hot cannon-ball.
During one of the rainy days Bert and Harry went fishing. "We'll be sure to get plenty of bites to-day," Harry said, as they started off with their poles and lines, well protected from the weather by rubber boots and coats. "I hope we catch a lot of fish," said Bert. But they caught only two little sun-fish, which Harry threw back into the creek, as they were too small to keep.
When we speak of a Bird or an Insect, the mere name calls up at once a characteristic image of the thing; but the name of Jelly-Fish, or Sun-Fish, or Sea-Blubber, as the larger Acalephs are also called, suggests to most persons a vague idea of a fish with a gelatinous body, or, if they have lived near the sea-shore, they associate it only with the unsightly masses of jelly-like substance sometimes strewn in thousands along the beaches after a storm.
"Wha-ee-he! wha-ee-he!" while the canoe turned in swift circles. When he saw the sun-fish, he cried "Esa, esa! you odious fish! why did you dirty my hook by taking it in your mouth? Let go, I say, let go." The sun-fish did as he was bid, and on his return to the bottom of the lake told the king-fish what Manabozho had said.
The water of the docks was of a livid turbidity, which teemed with the gelatinous globes of the sun-fish; and people were rowing about there in pleasure-boats, and sailors on floats were painting the hulls of the black ships.
Dog-Fish. Spanish-Mackarel. Cavallies. Boneto's. Blue-Fish. Drum, red. Drum-Fish, black. Angel-Fish. Bass, or Rock-Fish. Sheeps-Heads. Plaice. Flounder. Soles. Mullets. Shad. Eat-Backs. Guard, white. Guard, green. Scate or Stingray. Thornback. Congar-Eels. Lamprey-Eels. Eels. Sun-Fish. Toad-Fish. Sea-Tench. Trouts of the Salt Water. Crocus. Herring. Smelts. Shads. Breams. Taylors.
I, too, heard the pewit's plaint in my childhood and caught the sun-fish in the brook. I was a boy when they planted the black post at the line and watered it with the blood of my countrymen. Gray-haired and with old-time roots in a foreign soil, I dream with them yet of the day that shall see it pulled up and hurled over the river where my fathers beat back the southern tide a thousand years.
It opened with a single blow of the hammer; and there on a ground of light-colored limestone, lay the effigy of a creature fashioned apparently out of jet, with a body covered with plates, two powerful-looking arms articulated at the shoulders, a head as entirely lost in the trunk as that of the ray or the sun-fish, and long angular tail."
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