TH1 WJIQ0N5'IK' FARMER.



  HORSE-RADISH 6auq#.,-rse a small stick
of young horse-radish; then with a couple of
teaspoonfuls of it six * sm1a teaspoonful of
salt and four tablespoonsful of cream;, stir it
briskly, and add by doeg. a winose glas full
of vinegar. 'Eleft'to serve with cold roast
beef.


         YOUTH'S AdCMEft

      some of the _masters of tQkaoep.

  Our young readers were preomited, in the
March No., some account of two or three of
the living monsters of the Sea, and now we
are about to fulfill that promise.
  On our journey to Europe last summer, we
were hardly out of harbor at Boston when we
plowed our wu right into a la-ge troop of

                POaProsas.
  It was raining a little, and the landward
breeze ruffled the surface of the water into
what, at that time, were very considerable
waves,and which but for the white-caps here and
there would have looked very dark and threat-
ening. But the joUy porpoises had no thought
of being afraid. Indeed they appeared to re-
joice in the heaving of the deep waters, and
amused themselves and us by tumbling over
and over and by plunging ad blowing as
though the sea had been made on purpose for
them to sport in.
  The black body of the porpoise Is veryj thick
next the head, and many of the children on
board were sure they were monstrous big black
pigs that had been turned out of Johnny Bull's
sty and were emigrating to America on their
own hook!
  The entire animal is 6 or 7 feet long. There
are two spout-hole in the top of the head through
which he blows on coming up to the surface,
after being under water for some time. The
jaws are pretty large, and each is armed with
about 60 sharp-pointed teeth.
  Porpoises are hardly evex found alone; oft-
ener in large companies of thirty or forty.
They are fierce devourers of fresh water fish,
which they often pursueip the mouths of riv-
ers emptying into the sea. Apd then they, are
sometimes eaught themselves, We saw a great



chase after some of them, one day, in the river
Thames, near London. At last one of the num-
ber was shot by a good 4HOa    nn i    of
the boats, and d             %H i        +wd
uphe    m.                o


  Xv44boy boa hoek     of  at terible sea-
monaiesg   hnpk. May be owe of you have
se~4keAb~lre-     9ng jaws of one in some
        -     ,   they are, with six rows of
cruel teeth-seventy-two in each jaw, or one
hundred and forty-four in all!

  There are five or six species of the shark,
but they all agree in the general characteris-
tics. Some of them have an average length,
when full grown, of thirty to forty feet.
  The white shark is the swiftest fish of the
sea; and being provided with a mouth of great
capacity, and a gullet so large that he can
readily swallow an aimal as large as a man,
and being covered with a thiek skin almost as
hard as shell, and awmed with the horrible rows
of interlocking teeth already referred to, he
would be the most dangerous monster of the
deep, were it not that his upper jaw is so much
longer than the lower, that the only way of
taking his prey is to turn on his side. And
while he is turning over, it often happens that
the fish or other creature pursued escapes.
  Whenever a ship pawn when there are
sharks, they sem to uAterstand that there is
a chance for food-ether the refuse thrown
out from the oook room, or perhaps some sailor
or passenger who may unluckily fall overboard.
  On our way out to England, in the early
spring, we saw no sharks at all; but when we
returned, late in the summer, we saw them re-
peatedly swimming about the ship, hungrily
waiting for a chance to devour us. Sometimes
several would appear at once, either very close
to the ship or several rods away. At a dis-
tance they were known by the long dark fin on
the top of the baek, whrih protruded above the
surface of the water, reminding us of the coul-
ter which sticks up from the nose of some
plows.
  Next month a story of trying to catch a shark.



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