It is not improbable, for they are among the purest liars I ever saw.

[There will be no additional charge for this joke, except to parties requiring an explanation of it.

This joke has received high commendation from some of the ablest minds of the age.] There are no fish in Mono Lake--no frogs, no snakes, no polliwigs -- nothing, in fact, that goes to make life desirable.

Millions of wild ducks and sea-gulls swim about the surface, but no living thing exists under the surface, except a white feathery sort of worm, one half an inch long, which looks like a bit of white thread frayed out at the sides.

If you dip up a gallon of water, you will get about fifteen thousand of these.