272 ANGLERS' EVENINGS. 



As soon as shad becomes cheap and plenty, the landlady announces at 

 the breakfast table that she will have shad for dinner. The boarder imme- 

 diately goes to his room and puts on the poorest shirt he has, and when he 

 comes to dinner he has provided himself with a magnifying-glass, which 

 makes the bones look larger, a small basket to put the bones in, a tooth- 

 pick, and a pair of tweezers. When one eats shad he wants to eat it ; he 

 don't want to talk or discuss the state of affairs in France, as he will get so 

 full of the bony parts that he will sigh for a little more Bourbon.* When 

 he swallows a bone, all he has to do is to take his tweezers and pull it out ; 

 after one learns this art it is simple and even graceful. It is calculated that 

 during the shad season a good shad-eater will get from ten to fifteen bushels 

 of bones from what shad he eats. After the last shad is destroyed, he tears 

 off his shirt, sandpapers off the ends of the bones which are sticking out 

 through his skin, dons clean linen, and is himself again. If we have in our 

 remarks said aught that looks as though we had wandered from the truth, 

 we are willing to vouch for correctness by furnishing all sceptics with a 

 written affidavit." 



The list of works which follows will, with the addition 

 of Westwood, bring our catalogue of fishing books up to 

 the month of September, 1879. They are arranged under 

 the heads, Angling Proper ; Reports and Natural 

 History; Poetry, and Works other than British; and 

 the price, publisher's name, and dates are given were 

 possible. 



*Americanism for native whisky. 



