26 FISHING FOR MONEY-SHELLS. 



stabs this comblike affair into the sand at the 

 bottom of the water, and after giving two or 

 three prods draws it up to look at it : if he has been 

 successful, perhaps four or five money -shells 

 have been impaled on the teeth of the spear. It 

 is a very ingenious mode of procuring them, for 

 it would be quite impracticable either to dredge 

 or net them out; and they are never, as far 

 as I know, found between tide-marks. 



