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Now, the torpid state of the mud-fish in his hardened ball of clay closely resembles the real or supposed condition of the toad-in-a-hole; but with one important exception. However, this is a mere detail; and indeed, if toads-in-a-hole do really exist at all, we must in all probability ultimately admit that they breathe to some extent, though perhaps very slightly, during their long immurement.
Following the fossil record, we do not observe the changes which are taking place in the soft internal organs, but we must not lose sight of them. This approach toward the warm-blooded type begins in the "mud-fish," and is connected with the development of the lungs.
Scientific interest and filial piety ought alike to secure our attention for the African mud-fish. It lives its amphibious life among the rice-fields on the Nile, the Zambesi, and the Gambia, and is so greatly given to a terrestrial existence that its swim-bladder has become porous and cellular, so as to be modified into a pair of true and serviceable lungs.
I asked, and they answered that the man who truly had enjoyed such tramping to and fro was no soldier but a mud-fish. "Then, if he lies to them," I said, "perhaps he tells us the truth after all." They howled at me, calling me a man without understanding. Yet when I went away I left them thinking, each man for himself, and that was good.
I fancy that people had seen these folk that fished with young perch come to the pond, perhaps even knew them by name and where they lived, and that the bait had been bought in a city market where they even keep young mud-fish for sale as bait to the unsuspecting, and will assure them that these are the young of dog-fish and are particularly alluring.
Oh! in the Khi and the Khue, There are many fish in the warrens; Sturgeons, large and snouted, Thryssas, yellow-jaws, mud-fish, and carp; For offerings, for sacrifice, That our bright happiness may be increased. From a reference in the Analects, III, ii, to an abuse of this ode in the time of Confucius, We learn that it was sung When the sacrificial vessels and their contents were being removed.
When the dry season comes on and the rice-fields are reduced to banks of baking mud, the mud-fish retire to the bottom of their pools, where they form for themselves a sort of cocoon of hardened clay, lined with mucus, and with a hole at each end to admit the air; and in this snug retreat they remain torpid till the return of wet weather.
And turning on the crouching lynx: "Bad Tommy! Wicked, treacherous, bad no! Poor old Tom! You are quite right. I'd do the same if I were trapped and anybody tried to patronize me. I know how you feel yes, I do, Tommy Tiger. And I'll tell old Jonas to give you lots and lots of delicious mud-fish for your dinner to-night yes, I will, my friend. Also some lavender to roll on.... Mr.
But the fishermen, the real fishermen, know better. The mud-fish, more properly the bowfin, is a small, dark-colored, ganoid fish which is so tough and will live under such discouraging circumstances that it would make ideal pickerel bait if the pickerel would have anything to do with it, but they will not.
Of course, I missed my own substantial boat, and it was some little time before I grew accustomed to the frail canoe, which necessitated the greatest possible care in handling, and also on the part of the passengers generally. One day I decided to go and explore one of the islands that studded Cambridge Gulf, in search of a kind of shell mud-fish which I was very partial to.
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