SOME FISHES OF THE DISTRICT. Lest. 
Among the rarer of the British fishes that have been found 
in this locality, the ten-spined Stickleback is worthy of men- 
tion, which the late Sir Oswald Mosley, in his first inaugural 
address as the President of the Burton Natural History 
Society in 1847, recorded as having been found in a small 
stream close to the Station, the site of which is now covered 
with buildings. About a year ago I saw one of these fishes, 
that had a remarkable history. Messrs. Bass & Co. had made 
a bore-hole for water at Sleaford, in Lincolnshire, and at the 
depth of 120 feet had found a large supply, which rose some 
feet above the ground. One day on taking sample of the 
water, a small fish was found in the can, and it was sent to 
Burton, where I had the pleasure of examining it while it was 
alive, and found it to be a ten-spined stickleback. Nobody 
could tell where it started from before coming up the bore- 
hoie, but it must have had a remarkable underground journey 
from somewhere. 
Space forbids me to say more, or to describe the pleasures 
that await those who wish to make a study of the lives and 
habits of fishes; but they are well summed up by an old 
fisherman of long ago named Davors, who says: 
‘The lofty woods, the forests wide and long, 
Adorned with leaves and branches, fresh and green, 
In whose cool bowers the birds, with many a song, 
Do welcome with their choir the Summer’s queen ; 
The meadows fair, where Flora’s gifts among, 
Are intermixed with verdant grass between ; 
The silver-scaled fish that softly swim 
Within the sweet brook’s crystal watery stream: 
All these, and many more of His creation 
That made the Heavens, the angler oft doth see: 
Taking therein no little delectation, 
To think how strange, how wonderful they be.” 
