Uncle Dick and Lisa's Old Time Animal Tales

     A curious incident of the whole of the occupants of a small fish pond being destroyed by a flash of lightning is reported from Seck, Grand Duchy of Nassau. The Nassauer Bote states that during a very heavy thunder and hail storm at night a flash of lightning struck a small pond, well stocked with various kinds of fish, the property of the pastor of the parish. The following morning the whole number of the fish were discovered to be dead upon the surface of the water. They had all the appearance of having been halfboiled, and crumbled to pieces at the least touch, just as the case with fish after being boiled. Neither any external nor internal injury could be observed, the scales being intact, and swimming bladders filled and well preserved. The water in the pond was still muddy and dull the morning after the storm, as if the lightning had only then struck it.