At the Red Dog Saloon in Juneau, there was a halibut hanging on the wall.  I think it was only one halibut but I could not swear to it.  It was in two pieces, you see -- two huge slabs as if someone had taken a blade and sliced it down its middle. 
If you put the two pieces together, you'd have one halibut.  But there's always the possibility that the bottom half and the top half, as displayed in the Red Dog Saloon, do not come from the same fish.
Allan tells me that halibuts once swam like our familiar sunfish, with an eye on each side of its flat head and a pectoral fin on each side of its flat body, but that the halibut became a bottom feeder and gradually flipped over onto one of its flat sides.  This made it easier to vacuum its food off the ocean floor, more like a floor brush instead of a corner brush.
Allan also tells me that when the halibut toppled over and started swimming fulltime like a card table, one of his eyes was scraping the ocean floor so it began to move around and up over the edge until it appeared on the same top side as the other eye.  Looks weird 'cause it's still close to the edge and not at all in a symmetrical position.
Would the halibut be an example of evolution within a species?  I wonder if there's proof of my husband's story.  Is there anything evolutionary about this fishhook contest?  Well, there's certainly proof that I hide a fishhook in each and every issue of the Gazette.
Ted Bentz of Excelsior, whose sharp eye caught the sharp fishhook in the hind leg of the Carver County Fair Horse on page 41, wins the $10 drawing this time.  Congratulations, Ted.
Anybody that finds the fishhook hidden in this September edition is invited to write and tell me of its location, then sink it in the mail to Box 387 in Victoria, MN 55386.  Have fun, but don't go over the edge if you can't find it.