. The first [-fifth] reader of the school and family series. s^ ?Because God made this large, the other less\ 11. It has been truly remarked that mullets stand pre-em-inent in the annals of human luxury, cruelty, and folly. Intheir feasts the Romans reveled over the dying surmullet,while the bright red color of health passed through variousshades of purple, violet, blue, and white, as life gradually ebb-ed, and convulsions jDut an end to the admired put these devoted fish into crystal vessels filled withwater, over a sIoav fire, upon their tables, and complacentlyregarded the fi
. The first [-fifth] reader of the school and family series. s^ ?Because God made this large, the other less\ 11. It has been truly remarked that mullets stand pre-em-inent in the annals of human luxury, cruelty, and folly. Intheir feasts the Romans reveled over the dying surmullet,while the bright red color of health passed through variousshades of purple, violet, blue, and white, as life gradually ebb-ed, and convulsions jDut an end to the admired put these devoted fish into crystal vessels filled withwater, over a sIoav fire, upon their tables, and complacentlyregarded the fingering sufierings of their victims as the in-creasing heat gradually jDrepared them for their pamj)ered* ap-j)etites. 12. Probably the changes which the blood underwent inthe minute capillaries,^ as it was gradually deprived of itslife-preserving oxygen, produced those varied hues which thepoet has so well described : It dies like parting day;-each pang imbued Witli a new color, as it gasps away, The last still loveliest, till—tis gone, and all is striped Ked Mullet, Mullus sumiuletlis. The striped red mullet, a beautiful fish of a pale pink color,but somewhat larger than the one known to the Romans, isfound in considerable numbers on the English coasts. Themullets, like the cod and some other fish which feed in deepwater, are furnished with long feelers attached to the lowerjaw, supposed to be delicate organs of touch, by which theseiish are enabled to select their food on the muddy bottoms. pAp-ro, well-tasted : savory ; palatable. |^ Pam-pebeb, fed to thefoll; glutted2 Ep-i-<-Cee, one who indulges in the luxu ries of the Ses-teece, a Eoman coin,ahout four cents 2 Ep-i-<-Cee, one who indulges in the luxu-,5 , a small blood-vessel; seeries of the table. I Fourth Reader, p. 59, 60. • willsons fifth header. Part Y. LES. IV. OTHER FA^riLIES OP THE SPINE-RAYED FISHES.
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