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"3 FISH. Master, I marvel how the fishes live in the sea. / 1 FISH. Why, as men do a-land; the great ones eat up the little ones. " / PERICLES.
Of fishes which are remarkable for beauty names might be mentioned by the hundred; alike of food-fishes, of powerful and fierce-tempered kinds, and of those which may be described as purely ornamental. Not all are graceful in shape; but vast numbers are exquisite in colouring, especially when first drawn from the water. As they gasp out their lives, the brilliant tinting fades.