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ig black cloud which  they had not noticed spread over the sun, and heavy  drops of rain began to fall, so that the fire was almost  put out, and that, you know, is a very serious thing in  the wilderness where they have no matches, for it is  very hard to light it again. To make matters worse,  an icy wind began to blow, and the poor fishes were  chilled right to their bones.

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o they made their fire to cook some food, right on the edge of a steep  bank, which had a deep pool of water lying beneath it  at the bottom. While the food was cooking they all  stretched themselves lazily out under the tree, and were  just dropping off to sleep when a

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ne day the whole fish tribe came back very tired  from a hunting expedition, and looked about for a nice  cool spot in which to pitch their camp. It was very  hot, and they thought that they could not find a more  comfortable place than under the branches of a large  tree which grew by the bank of a river.

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hey would tell you that  long, long ago you would have met fishes on the land,  wandering from place to place, and hunting all sorts  of animals, and if you consider how fishes are made, you  will understand how difficult this must have been and  how clever they were to do it. Indeed, so clever were  they that they might have been hunting still if a terrible  thing had not happened.  

A Fish Story

I had so much fun posting an on-going story that I'm going to do it again.  

Way back (when dinosaurs roamed the earth) I was in college.  I silk-screened an adaptation of a tale from Andrew Lang's Lilac Fairy book.  I am going to post it here, day by day.  

it's called

A Fish Story

erhaps you think that fishes were always fishes, and  never lived anywhere except in the water, but if you went to Australia and talked to the aborigine people in the sandy desert in the middle of the country you would learn  something quite different.