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When there were no speckled cod on the hooks there were silvery

hake, velvety black pollock, beautiful scarlet sea-perch that

look like little old men, and an occasional ugly dogfish with his

Chinese jade eyes.

When the dogfish came the men pulled up their anchors and rowed a

mile or so away, for where the dogfish pursues all others fly. He

has the shape and traits of his merciless giant brother, the

tiger-shark, with the added menace of a horn full of poison in

the middle of his back instead of a dorsal fin; an evil, curved

horn, the thrust of which can be nearly fatal to a man.

The bottom of the dory became covered with a flooring of liquid

silver bodies that twined together and rolled with the roll of

the dory.