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SEAHORSE A FREAK OF DEEP WATERS There is a horse that eats no oats, hay or corn. 1 He is stabled in the deep waters of the Mediterranean and the Atlantic Ocean, and pastures in submarine fields of seaweed.. He wears bony armor and a tail curved like a monkeys, and yet hes a fish! His animal head has given him his popular ! name seahorse. With all these varied characteristics, the seahorse : is not fast, visions or even disagreeable. Nor is he : handsome. Like his cousin, the pipefish, he is a poor swimmer. Also he is hen-pecked. Mrs. Seahorse obliges him to take care of the children which rule this deep-water home. To help him in his work as nursemaid he has a pouch beneath his tail, formed by folds of skin j and completely closed except for a small hole in front. In this pouch the eggs are deposited, and : they remain there until they are hatched. There are about twenty species of seahorses in the waters of the globe, a common one being the short-snouted variety. In the waters of Australia there . dwells a seahorse that is decorated with numerous spines, terminating in leaflike appendages. These ! are so near the color of the seaweeds among which ; they live that they appear actually a part of the vegetation.. New York Herald.
