Judge — March 14, 1885 — page 5: what you’re looking at

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JULES wiTHouT VERNE, A Pew days ago there was quite 4 among the fishes that swim, ne ican coast, in the Carribean Sea, the Atlantic an, and even as far north as the Gulf of ‘The fishes complain that the big n of the sea is weigh ” than the anchors Sull at serves to keep the ensation the Amer- even more in the * of the ships. torial politicians very well aw fait with son above, for th an apparatus for int en they found ont abe it struck them as not being so “fishy would wis Some of them, i smaller one ast ly the abit u holiday swim in Nica- w would that be any ant if the half-sav had the same privileg ¢ fish that perchance s of the iji Islands thof their own veir Victorious tails ld inhabitants. It threw that whole fish fr opened to them? but lately swam a much dreaded Sandwich an might now penctrate the d beloved waters, and w in the very teeth of the finny trit could have borne that continent of perplexity nyiety. Fishes, though ¢ imes erratic in their mov yently coe tive ra hey felt that nearly concerning themselves tl to be consulted. Of course, fish who pass their whole lives in the great Atlantic, don’t ane a matter feel like complaining if things are rough on them. In fact, they rather enjoy things ire rough like their beloved ocean, but y ld not stand the notion of being mixed up with the Pacific fish—in fact they had alway; the idea that Panama was too thin, they never liked to see the waters strike it hard, lest it might give way and the nericas get broke in two—and now pin with his old Nic scheme, which they thought wa d long y didn’t think it was fair anyhow, they were always content to stay in their nd they did not see why mm tay in the The dere w folks would like it if the whales and sharks chartered a big water wave to across their cont not believe it, | but one yand another the fish have pretty constant a ate information of what often follow in the wake and hear a world of conver- n between clever politicians leaning over satis the sides, ‘Then thereare scraps of n apers thrown out, which are at once scized and eagerly devoured by the expectant piscatorial news- mongers. ‘Then there are gossiping me maids who frequently board our ship: maids are inclined ip—and, Lam sor- ry to say, mermaids are exception to this rale + Adversity may bring us. stra fellows,” said an old thresher shar 1 elected himself president of the meeting, nd you know that the fish are bound to consider all who are in the bed of our ocean as our bed-fellows, but we would rather swim clear of the ”, Ange ones, ‘Hear, hear!” shouted an enthusiastic THE JUDGE. STORY OF STANZA TWO, Oki S* STANZA THRE young sea urchin, but as none of them could hear very well, a slip from the thresher’s ta silenced the urchin, Then a fine pearl oyster wanted to address the meeting, but as he had never been much in the habit of speaking, he was soon “ shut up.” And a pilot fish, who acted as secre- | tary to the president, took a shell to write down the minutes of the meeting, but so many minutes were consumed in what the secretary called preliminaries, that the presi- dent grew hungry and said that he was de- termined to boss the wholo business, And to prove his words he ate up a number of the small fry, and then adjourned the meeting till the next day, when he ordered them all HE MEEK MISSIONARY AND THE SANGUINARY SAVAGE. | STANZA SIX, to be around at the same hour, but they did not come. So the thresher was wofully left, And Capt. Pim was left too, to goon with his scheme, anyway he is not Wkly to get any more opposition from the fish, The old shark fixed that for him. Dear Jupor.—I was out dining with |some friends, and I was very much ‘‘at sea” lust night when I wrote the above. I men- |tion this to prove that I had a good oppor- tunity of finding out what the fishes were at. You can do what you like with it. I forget what it is all about, and though I have read it over, I cannot, for the life of me, under- ‘stand a word of it, but no doubt you will. Aqua Pura. comicbooks.com