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Questions from the original Key to the Nature Library to send you back into Fishes — and out of doors.

1. What is the gamiest game fish for its weight in America?
2. What fish lays its eggs in a mass that unfolds into a long ribbon?
3. What fishes make a grunting noise?
4. What kinds drum?
5. Read Holder's thrilling story of the capture of a great Jewfish?
6. What family of fishes have their young born alive?
7. What mode of fishing are jigging; and drifting?
8. What fish scales are chiefly used in making "fish-scale jewellery?"
9. What food fish has blue and green flesh?
10. Read Dr. Henry van Dyke's apostrophe to the fighting ouananiche.
11. Read the account of the fight of a rainbow trout.
12. Explain the flight of a flying fish.
13. What little fish is the companion of the Portuguese man-of-war?
14. Compare the Atlantic and Pacific coast salmon.
15. Read Holder's story of the capture of a leaping tuna.
16. What is the romance of the tile fish?
17. What fish weighs a ton, almost?
18. What fish takes in stones as ballast?
19. What fish is the principal food of the fur seal?
20. What species of food fish is propagated the most extensively in the fish hatcheries?
21. What kind of fish supplies the glue and isinglass of commerce?
22. What peculiar distortion of the head does the male salmon undergo?
23. What is the food fish that lives in the coldest water?
24. Read Peck's burlesque account of the ways of the bullhead.
25. What decoration adorns the male minnow at breeding time?
26. State the mythical origin of eels.
27. What is the meaning of the terms "minnow" and "fry?"