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Updated: May 14, 2025
But we placed some food near the hole in the shell, and were rewarded by the sight of the Butterfly's head, and its lovely eyes, each with a little movable tassel above it." Hidden under weed and stones is another small brownish fish of the shore, the Gunnell or Butter-fish.
"Now, Tom, every Friday I come down here and call up all who have ill-used little children and serve them as they served the children." And at that Tom was frightened, and crept under a stone; which made the two crabs who lived there very angry, and frightened their friend the butter-fish into flapping hysterics: but he would not move for them.
You may turn it out of its snug hiding-place, but you will have a hard task to catch it, even in a small rock-pool, and, once caught, it slips through your fingers like an eel. Its body is eel-shaped, with a narrow fin on the back, and covered with a layer of slime. It well deserves the name of Butter-fish. The eggs of this strange little fish are rolled into a mass by the two parents.
The other children, joined by Miss Ada, came down as soon as possible, their curiosity excited. Molly lifted the wet seaweed covering the contents of the basket and they saw a pile of shining little mackerel. "Tinkers!" cried Miss Ada. "What a nice lot of them! Oh, and there are some butter-fish, too.
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