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"Suckin'-fish," was Ben's laconic answer. "A sucking-fish! I never heard of one before. Why is it so-called?" "Because it sucks," replied the sailor. "Sucks what?" "Sharks. Didn't you see it suckin' at this 'un afore I pulled it from the teat? Ha! ha! ha!" "Surely it wasn't that, Ben?" said the lad, mystified by Ben's remark. "Well, boy, I an't, going to bamboozle ye.
There was a doctor as belonged in the man-o'-war where I sarved for two years, as was larned in all such curious things. He said that the suckin'-fish be a bad swimmer; and that I know myself to be true. You can tell by the smallness o' its fins. Well, the doctor, he say, it fastens on to the sharks and ships so as to get carried from place to place, and to the rocks to rest itself.
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