212 FISH HATCHING. 



than sixty years ago, ^vhen the salmon-fishers 

 drew their nets at the Tillage of Barnes ; 

 where they covered the shingle with shining 

 fish, and sent them off in a tax-cart to mar- 

 ket, caught not eight miles from London- 

 bridge. Shall we ever live to see this 



agam ? 



As regards trout in the Thames. The ova 

 from which these fish were hatched has been 

 obtained, by the kindness of owners of 



that — but right over it, escaping triumphant, for a time at 

 least. 



" Some days afterwards he returned home to his hole : the nets 

 were again put round him : but this time, on to the cork-lines 

 of the nets which were in the water was fastened a net which 

 remained suspended in the air by a string. Again the salmon 

 made a run and a jump ; he got well over the net in the water, 

 but fell, of course, into the net suspended in the air. He died 

 an inglorious death, but his remains were honoured by becom- 

 ing 'a dainty dish to set before a king,' for he was taken to 

 the king, then residing at Virginia Water, who gave the lucky 

 netter a guinea a j)ound for his fish : twenty guineas for the 

 last Thames salmon," 



