SALMONIA. 



of cruelty, as I remember a lady of fashion 

 once did, who was very fond of fishing for 

 perch, and who employed her daughter, a 

 little girl of nine years of age, to pass the 

 hook through the body of the worm ! Now 

 there is a good wind, and the fish has just 

 taken a natural fly. I shall drop the flies, if 

 possible, within a few inches of his nose. 

 He has risen. He is caught ! I must carry 

 him down stream to avoid the bed of weeds 

 above. I now have him on fair ground, and 

 he fights with vigour. Fortunately, my silk 

 worm gut is very strong, for he is not a fish 

 to be trifled with. He begins to be tired; 

 prepare the net. We have him safe, and 

 see your link hangs to his lower jaw: the 

 hook had struck the cartilage on the out- 

 side of the bow, and the fly, probably, was 

 scarcely felt by him. 



Phys. — I am surprised! That fish evi- 

 dently had discovered that the artificial fly 

 was a dangerous bait, yet he took the natural 

 fly which was on a hook, and when the silk 

 worm gut must have been visible. 



