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Excerpt from Histories of New Food Fishes, Vol. 2: The Lumpfish Some old writers were fond of picturing the. Male watching over the young for a time, and carrying about many thousands of his tiny progeny clinging to his body by means of the suckers. It was a pleasing conceit, but late observers have never met with the peripatetic nursery. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.