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In the warm water of the fiords the herring schools have a fine recess until a whale or a fisherman comes along.

The northest city in the World is in Norway and the name of this city ends in est, too. It is Hammerfest. The Gulf Stream seems to end at Hammerfest and it dumps on the shore sticks of wood, some of which have floated like toy boats in a river all the way from the Gulf of Mexico. The people gather this “driftwood” and use it to make fires. Ordinary wood burns with a yellow flame, but wood that has drifted for a long time in the sea-water gets filled with salt from the water and when dried and burned gives off flames colored blue and green and purple, so that driftwood makes especially beautiful fires in open fireplaces.

You have probably tasted cod-liver oil—and hated it—but you were told it was very good for you, and it is. The cod is a much bigger fish than the herring, but of course not nearly as big as the whale. One of the playgrounds of the cod is near Norway, round some islands called “The Lofodens.” Fishermen catch shiploads of cod, press the oil out of their livers, and bottle it for your good health. The bones of the cod they have no use for, so they take them out—and this is quite a job, for there are a great many—and then they dry the flesh of the cod to make food. Here is a sentence that sounds funny unless you put in a period where it belongs, and then it makes perfect sense: “A codfish was swimming round the Lofoden Islands a month after all its bones had been taken out.” Where would you put the period to make sense?

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峡湾温暖的水域就成了大群鲱鱼的安乐窝，直到鲸或渔民的到来。

世界上最北方（northest）的城市就在挪威，而且城市的名字也是以“est”结尾，叫“哈墨弗斯特（Hammerfest）”。墨西哥湾流抵达挪威的地点就在哈墨弗斯特。湾流将一些木头枝条推到岸上，这些木头枝条有的就像是小河里的玩具船一样一路从墨西哥湾漂流到这儿。挪威人将这些漂流木收集起来烧火用。普通木头燃烧会发出黄色的火焰，而这些在海水中漂流了很长时间的木头因吸收了海水中的盐，干燥后燃烧会发出蓝色的、绿色的和紫色的火焰，所以，漂流木在敞开的壁炉里可以燃起美丽的火焰。

你很可能尝过鱼肝油，那种味道你肯定不喜欢——但是，别人会告诉你，鱼肝油有益你的健康。也确实如此。鳕鱼是一种比鲱鱼大得多的鱼，但是决不会和鲸那样大。鳕鱼活动场所之一就在挪威的罗佛敦群岛周围。为了你们的健康，渔夫捕捞整船整船的鳕鱼，从鳕鱼的肝脏提取鱼肝油装在瓶子里。鳕鱼的骨头没有什么用，所以他们把鱼骨全部剔除——这不是件容易的事，因为骨头太多了——然后将鳕鱼肉晒干或风干制成鱼肉干当食物。这儿有一个句子，非常有趣。不过，你得在适当的位置加上一个句号，这个句子才能讲得通。“一条鳕鱼在罗佛敦群岛游啊游一个月后它所有的骨头都被剔除了。”你会在哪儿加一个句号使这个句子有意义呢？