Natur gav man reazon, and showed him how to use it, but man luvs to open the throttle valve and let reazon hum. This ackounts for hiz running oph from the track so often and gitting bust up. I never knu a kangaroo tew bust up. THE CODFISH. The codfish iz a child ov the oshun. This ackounts for their being so salt. They are caught with a hook and line, and bite a steel trap, and hang on like a poor relation. They are good eating for a wet day; they are better than an umbreller to keep a man dry. Dried codfish iz one ov the luxurys of life, but codfish three times a day would weaken mi confidence in them. Codfish never venture in fresh water; they would soon spile if they did. I never hav been codfishing miself, but think I should like it better than fishing for frogs. I think i could ketch frogs well enuff, but i should insist upon their taking themselfs off from the hook. I had rather take a boss bumble bee in mi hand than a live frog, not bekause I am afraid the frog would bite, but i am afraid ov their kicking. Sum people ain’t afraid to take ennything with their hands, that they can reach, not even an eel, but if I should ever git caught by an eel, if i couldn’t settle with him, right off, by giving him the hook and line, i would throw the pole into the bargin and put for home. The codfish iz sed tew be an aristokrat, and to keep aloof from the other fish of hiz size in the sea, and claims tew be a relation of the whales, but this looks to me rather fishy. I hav noticed that the codfish alwus haz a stiff upper lip, but I think this iz more owing tew the bone that iz in him than it iz tew his blood. THE MACKREL. The mackrel iz a game fish. They ought tew be well edukated, for they are always in schools. They are very eazy to bite, and are caught with a piece ov old red flannel pettycoat tied onto a hook. They ain’t the only kind ov fish that are caught by the same kind of bait. Mackrel inhabit the sea, but thoze which inhabit the grocerys alwus taste to me az tho they had been born and fatted on salt. They want a good deal ov freshning before they are eaten, and want a good deal ov freshning afterward. If I can hav plenty of mackrel for brekfasst i can generally make the other two meals out ov cold water. Mackrel are considered by menny folks the best fish that swims, and are called “the salt of the earth.” THE POLLYWOGG. The pollywogg iz created bi the sides ov the road, out ov thick water, and spends hiz infancy in pollywogging. After he haz got through pollywogging he makes up hiz mind that this world want made for pollywogs and “nothing venture nothing have,” and then he turns hiz attenshun tew bigger things. He looks out upon life with the eye ov wisdum, and studdying the various animals ov creashun, he cums tew the konklusion that the best thing he kan do iz tew bekum a frog. This iz the way that frogs fust cum tew be made, and pollywoggs tew be lost.