Tall Tale
For WnrcH We Hvye to Tvke utn Word of ESTLHUEI) CONTEMPOIURIES.
v new prscmnuu, kfi'tim:. In one of the springs hero an Oysterville man caught a very strango fish. Ira length ia about five feet, with a uniform nze thio'i.^h itq body of probably four inches in diameter. Ths head somewhat rcambled a pi'w, and the month is provided with & most foi midnliltt array of teeth nearly an inch in length, which teem to grow promiscuously all over the inside. Its back H provided with a large fin, which when opened out, rises bix or eiyht inches from the back. With the exception of two aniull fins on the sides it is entirely clean, and, in place of scales, a skin similar to a oatfish coveis it.
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Waikato Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2030, 11 July 1885, Page 2 (Supplement)
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129Tall Tale Waikato Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2030, 11 July 1885, Page 2 (Supplement)
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