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v SOME RAINY FISH STORIES There is a record of a fisli rain in UM that showered smelts all over Staustead Parish in England. . At Baton Rouge in ISlMi it rained ducks, catbirds, and woodpeckers. . Scientists explain these showers by the lifting power of the wind and the ancient principle that what goes up must come-down, and you can never be sure whats up. Getting down to 1!17. John Iwis or Abcrdale, Wales, reports: "I was startled by something falling all over me. . . . On putting my hand down my nock, I was surprised to find they were little fish." No less a person than Alexander von Humboldt writes of a doivnpour of fishes in the Andes which seemed to le aided and abetted by a very active volcano. The natives said they rather counted 011 fish showers to reduce the cost of living, usually having several a season. Singapore holds the shower record, with a rain of fifteen-inch catfish, which the Chinese gathered up by the basketful. Nine native eyewitnesses, urged by a cauny Seot. made depositions before a magistrate attesting the truth of their tales of a shower in Bengal during which at least five, kinds V.f,fjsh fell, from the heavens. Boston, .in the days of the long ago. once had what it called a .-piscatorial deluge." But in Connecticut the same year it rained fish and ice together.
