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reached ; but these disagreeable concomitants 

 were soon forgotten, and are now scarcely re- 

 membered, while the pleasures are laid up in the 

 lavender of sweet recollection. 



The old-time zest of fishing with a float can 

 still be gratified; we can renew our youth by 

 fishing for "sunnies" in the old-fashioned way. 

 In the wooded streams of the Southern states the 

 float is a sine qua non for bream-fishing, owing 

 to the many tangled roots of trees on the banks, 

 and the mosses, grasses, and other aquatic plants 

 that grow so luxuriantly in the sluggish waters. 

 Then here's to the float and the sunny and the 

 bream ! 



THE CALICO-BASS 



{Pomoxis sparoides) 



The calico-bass was first described by Lacepede 

 from specimens sent to France from South Caro- 

 lina. He named it sparoides from a fancied 

 resemblance, either in its scales or compressed 

 body, to those features in fishes belonging to the 

 family Sparidce. 



Owing to its wide distribution it has received 

 many names, more or less descriptive. In the 

 Northern states it is variously called crappie, 

 croppie, strawberry-bass, grass-bass, bank lick 



