The wonderland of evolution / by Albert and George Gresswell.

  • Gresswell, Albert.
Date:
[1884]
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The wonderland of evolution / by Albert and George Gresswell. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    One might have supposed that they would all have died. They didn't. But let me tell you how the ink-bag was in the first instance produced. You will then be able to imagine how your nerves really first began. And I must claim your respect- ful attention, for these things require careful thought, and— Errors like straws upon the surface flow. He who would search for pearls must dive below. Now, once upon a time, very long ago, one of my forefathers went out early in the morning in search of breakfast, and happened to encounter a large fish, also intent upon the same object; yet neither of them could find anything to eat. The big fish proposed, there- fore, to deliver my forefather out of all his difficulties by calmly allowing him to slide down his throat. My noble ancestor was highly indignant, as you may imagine; but the unduly enlarged piscine monster, not to be baffled, endeavoured forth- with to carry his proposition into execution. There now ensued a struggle for existence