THE GOLD-FISH SPEAKS.

THE GOLD-FISH SPEAKS.

| the World outside our Dish
Lives the queerest-looking fish!
Which swims about in the oddest way.

Changing its colors every day.

Two black “fins,” and two of white,
Dance and wave from morn till night,
It has floating hair of golden hue,

Its “gills” are red and its eyes are blue.

Sometimes with strange sounds it comes,
Bringing us delicious crumbs;

But its eyes and mouth, so big and wide,
Frighten us all to the other side.

Elizabeth S. Tucker.

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