The tip of the cat's nose is always cold, except on the day of the
summer solstice, when it becomes lukewarm.

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Cod-fish are sorely attacked by dog and cuttle-fish. The latter, with
their hard mouths, resembling parrots' bills, cut up the mackerel and
herrings with great adroitness. The cuttle-fish are, in their turn,
sometimes attacked by the dog-fish; but they generally escape, by
ejecting a liquid resembling _ink_, which renders the water dark and
turbid.

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MACKEREL.


When red mullet are abundant in fishmongers' shops, a fine mackerel
season may be expected. The early mackerel are frequently attended by
a few mullet; and whenever they nearly, if not altogether, equal the
mackerel in number, the circumstance is generally the presage of the
approach of great shoals of mackerel.

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