MISCELLANEA. 6I 
extent fulfilled in the bait-cans sold at the tackle shops. 
But there is still a want, which, so far as Iam aware, 
has never been successfully supplied—I mean the pro- 
duction of a can of such form and construction chat z¢ 
may be conveniently carried, when full, by a strap across 
the fisherman's shoulders. The want of such a can often 
makes the whole difference between comfort and dis- 
comfort in live-bait fishing. With the old can, the soli- 
tary angler has at best a choice of evils: on the one 
hand he may stop fishing and carry his can along with 
him, or, on the other, he may leave his can and continue 
his fishing operations, every step of which carries him 
farther away from his baits. Live-baiting, in fact, except 
from a punt or with 
an attendant, thus be- 
comes muchlikea game 
of battledore, in which 
the fisherman, who is of 
course kept perpetually 
moving, forms a_ not 
inapt representation of 
the shuttlecock. 
To remedy this in- 
convenience I have had 
a bait-can constructed (somewhat on the principle of 
the ordinary pannier or creel), as shown in the engrav- 
ing, which can be strapped comfortably over the shoulders 
and carried by the fisherman, without fear of his losing 
