THE REAL CAUSE.
A patient angler was fishing from a jetty at a seaside resort, and two visitors were . watching him. Most of the fish caught were flat fish, and the two watchers began to argue why the fish were brown on one side and white on the other. One suggested that the fish were- originally all white, but that, sleeping on their backs in the mud, they had become so soiled that it wouldn't wash off. This was so ridiculed by the other man that, angrily, he bet any amount that his theory was correct. Upon the case being put to the angler, he remarked : 'You are entirely wrong. The real cause of one side being brown is that the fish have been swimming so long with their backs uppermost that • they have got sunburnt!"
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New Zealand Tablet, 28 March 1918, Page 45
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136THE REAL CAUSE. New Zealand Tablet, 28 March 1918, Page 45
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