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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1916 Excerpt: ...with him, some larger and some smaller, and they all had a merry time. Those who had been born soonest and had grown largest used to chase the others around and bite off their tails, or take them by the heads and swallow them whole; "for," said they, "even young salmon are good eating." "Heads I win, tails you lose," was their motto. By and by, when all the salmon were too large to be swallowed, they began to grow restless. They saw that the water rushing by seemed to be in a great hurry to get somewhere, and it was somehow suggested that its hurry was caused by something good to eat at the other end of its course. Then they all started down the stream, salmon-fashion, which fashion is to get into the current, head up-stream, and thus to drift backward as the river sweeps along. Down the Cowlitz River the salmon went for a day and a night, finding much to interest them. At last they began to grow hungry. Coming near the shore, they saw an angleworm of rare size and beauty floating in an eddy of the stream. Quick as thought one of them opened his mouth, which was well filled with teeth of different sizes, and swallowed the angleworm. Quicker still he felt a sharp pain in his gills, followed by a smothering sensation, and in an instant his comrades saw him rise straight into the air. This was nothing new to them, for they often leaped out of the water in their games of hide-and-seek, but only to come down again with a loud splash not far from the place where they had gone out. This one, however, never came back, and the others went on their course wondering. At last they came to the spot where the Cowlitz and the Columbia join, and for a time they were almost lost. They could find no shores, and the bottom and the top of the wate...
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- PublisherRareBooksClub.com
- Publication date2012
- ISBN 10 1153852098
- ISBN 13 9781153852098
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages116
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