1 SMOOTH BLENNY
2 VIVIPAROUS BLINNY
3 SPOTTED BLENNY or Gunnel-Fish
4, 5, 6 THE MONTAGU SUCKER-FISH
(Three illustrations.)
7 SUCKER of THE MONTAGU SUCKER-FISH
CHAPTER XXIV.
One of the best bons mots that I ever remember to have read was entitled, 'Punch's Address to the Ocean'—
'With all thy faults I love thee still.'
Any landsman who finds himself occupying a seat in a fishing-smack or oyster-boat while a stiffish breeze is blowing will, I am sure, with great mental fervour echo the above sentiment.
For myself, I can never take even a short trip on the water without experiencing some unpleasantness—proving to me that the sea is not 'my element.' Still, I am one of those to whom the 'salt ocean' is endeared by early recollections, having been, when a child, frequently among the aged and mutilated veterans of our country who vegetate on the banks of the 'silver Thames.'