a2 | A Day with the Sea Urehins.

 

The fish had passed all the lurking-places except
one, leaving their occupants in safety; but Pegasus,
that troublesome horse of Ruby’s, had not quite re-
covered his temper since the attack of the dog-fish,
and must needs poke his nose from under the over-
hanging fringe of seaweed just at ‘the moment the

 

enemy went by, and received the merest flick of its
fin, but in the twinkling of an eye horse and rider were
shot up high into the air, for you see it was neither
more nor less than a torpedo-fish who had touched
Pegasus, and this fish, as you know, is so strongly
charged with electricity as to give a violent shock to
any creature with whom it comes in contact. Alas!
for Ruby and his steed. The latter fell back into the