FISH’S IRON MASK
A codfish captured off Nova Scotia had somehow pushed its head into a treacle can and kept it there. The underside of the can was worn thin by being pushed along the sea’s sandy bed, but the upper part was covered with barnacles, so that the cod, which weighed 15 pounds, must have worn its iron mask for a long time, and still been able to feed on the Crustacea it found. A mackerel shark, also from Nova Scotia, five feet long and four feet in girth, was ringed by the top of a 60pound lard bucket. Rust had eaten away the bucket, but had left the ring.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 21 July 1941, Page 5
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111FISH’S IRON MASK Wairarapa Times-Age, 21 July 1941, Page 5
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