English:
"There's a curious fellow on next page dressed in mail, or rather in a box with holes for his fins and tail to come through. His coat is not of scales like other fish, but of hard plates. In some Trunk Fishes the box or trunk is triangular, and in others it is square. He lives in the Tropical seas, and nobody wants to eat him. So I suspect he has a very good time."

Illustration by Charles Bevalet, originally from Ocean World : Being a Descriptive History of the Sea and its Living Inhabitants (1868).

Identifier: littlefolksinfea00mill (find matches)
Title: Little folks in feathers and fur, and others in neither
Year: 1875 (1870s)
Authors: (Miller, Harriet (Mann) Mrs.), 1831- (from old catalog)
Subjects: Zoology
Publisher: Hartford, Conn., Dustin, Gilman & co. Cincinnati, Ohio, Queen city publishing co. (etc., etc.)
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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while the under parts are a rich orange color. Its usual length isfifteen or sixteen inches. This fish has the fin on the under side of the body, made intoa sort of sucker, by which he can hold on to rocks, or anything.It is said that he can hold on so well, that if put in a pail of water,he can be lifted up by the tail, when he will fasten on to the bottomand lift pail and water, and all. The Lump Fish Mamma is reported to be more careful of heryoung than most fishes. She makes some sort of a home, andtakes care of them till they are big enough to go out in the world,when thev attach themselves to her body, and she swims off withthem. Thats the storv, anyway. Theres a curious fellow on next page dressed in mail, or ratherin a box with holes for his fins and tail to come through. His coat 310 LITTLE FOLKS
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is not of scales like other fish, but of hard plates. In some TrunkFishes the box or trunk is triangular, and in others it is square. He lives in the Tropical seas, and nobody wants to eat him.So I suspect he has a very good time. See this flat headed fellow; he isnt very pretty to be sure, buthe is very strange. The flat part of his head is a sucking disk, by

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