TAME CODFTSH.

Tuapeka Times, Volume VII, Issue 391, 16 September 1874, Page 5

TAME CODFTSH.

The ladies, as a result of the introduction of marine aqvia.n'ttms into'ao many English watering places— far Margate. Scarborough, Yarmouth, &c, are about to follow the example of Brighton — will soon have an entirely new species of pet, that may, in time, proVe as popular as an infant hippopotamus or a bafoy elephant. According to Professor Wyyill'e Tnom'so'n, in nis intefestiag work " The depths of the sea, the codfish caught by the Faroe Bank fishermen, and placed in the wells of the vessel for transportation to the London market, are so friendly disposed towards the ijiuinan species as to allow themselves £o be scratched, and, probably because they are "covered with all kinds of suctorial copepods, appear to like the process. They will also eat readily from the hand, and one that had made several voyages had become quite a favorite with the sailors, and would come at command and rub his huge head against the professor's hand mast lovingly. When it is considered that these fish have only just been caught and hauled into the vessel by a treacherous baited hook, the above-named fact of natural history augurs much for their good ftfttare or yery little for their mworicß,