Once, there was an Indian who had a pet fish named Tommy, which he kept in a barrel. But he fish got pretty and the Indian had to change the water a good deal to keep him alive. He was too lazy to do that, and he thought he would teach the fish to live without water. So he did. He began by taking Tommy out and kept him out longer, and after a time Tommy got to stay out if he was in the wet grass.
Then the Indian found he could leave him in the wet grass all night, and pretty soon that fish could live in the shade whether the grass was wet or not. By that time he had got pretty tame, too, and he used to follow the Indian around a good deal, and when an Indian went out to dig worms for him to eat. Tommy went along too and got some for himself. The Indian thought everything of that fist, and when Tommy got so he didn’t need any water anymore but could go anywhere down to dusty road and stay all day out in the hot sun. You never saw the Indian without his fish. Some people wanted to by Tommy, but the Indian said he wouldn’t sell a fish like that for any money. You’d see him coming to town with Tommy following along the road, just like a dog; only of course he traveled a good deal like a snake, and almost as fast.
Well, it was pretty sad that the way that the Indian lost his fish and it was unusual too. He started for town one day with Tommy coming along behind as usual. There was a bridge in the road and the Indian come to it where he saw there was a hole it, but he went on over in without thinking. A little later he looked around for Tommy and Tommy wasn’t there. He went back away and called, but he couldn’t see anything of his pet. Then he come to the bridge and saw the hole, and he thought right away that maybe his fish had got in there. So he went to the hole and looked down, and sure enough, there was Tommy, floating on the water, bottom-side up. He’d fallen through that hole into the river and drowned.
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