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The Book of the Damned
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Charles Fort
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Those
fishes--still
alive--were
exhibited
at
the
Zoological
Gardens,
Regent's
Park.
The
Editor
says
that
one
was
a
minnow
and
that
the
rest
were
sticklebacks.
He
says
that
Dr.
Gray's
explanation
is
no
doubt
right.
But,
upon
page
6564,
he
publishes
a
letter
from
another
correspondent,
who
apologizes
for
opposing
"so
high
an
authority
as
Dr.
Gray,"
but
says
that
he
had
obtained
some
of
these
fishes
from
persons
who
lived
at
a
considerable
distance
apart,
or
considerably
out
of
range
of
the
playful
pail
of
water.
According
to
the
Annual
Register,
1859-14,
the
fishes
themselves
had
fallen
by
pailfuls.
If
these
fishes
were
not
upon
the
ground
in
the
first
place,
we
base
our
objections
to
the
whirlwind
explanation
upon
two
data:
That
they
fell
in
no
such
distribution
as
one
could
attribute
to
the
discharge
of
a
whirlwind,
but
upon
a
narrow
strip
of
land:
about
80
yards
long
and
12
yards
wide--
The
other
datum
is
again
the
suggestion
that
at
first
seemed
so
incredible,
but
for
which
support
is
piling
up,
a
suggestion
of
a
stationary
source
overhead--
That
ten
minutes
later
another
fall
of
fishes
occurred
upon
this
same
narrow
strip
of
land.
Even
arguing
that
a
whirlwind
may
stand
still
axially,
it
discharges
tangentially.
Wherever
the
fishes
came
from
it
does
not
seem
thinkable
that
some
could
have
fallen
and
that
others
could
have
whirled
even
a
tenth
of
a
minute,
then
falling
directly
after
the
first
to
fall.
Because
of
these
evil
circumstances
the
best
adaptation
was
to
laugh
the
whole
thing
off
and
say
that
someone
had
soused
someone
else
with
a
pailful
of
water
in
which
a
few
"very
young"
minnows
had
been
caught
up.
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