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exposed to the direct rays of the sun, the pail may be placed 

 inside a larger one and the space between the two filled with 

 ice, and a second double layer of cheese cloth placed over 

 the top of the outer pail; the whole forming a perfect non- 

 conductor of heat, while the evaporation from the cheese 

 cloth assists in keeping the temperature reduced to a mini- 

 mum. With such an arrangement minnows may be carried 

 about in an open boat for a whole afternoon in summer 

 without losing any of their vitality, provided a few cups of 

 water be occasionally dipped out and fresh water poured in 

 from a height of three or four feet, so as to produce aeration 

 of the water in the pail. 



When the temperature of the air rises above 80° F. it 

 becomes a difficult matter to keep delicate minnows like the 

 shiner from day to day. The method I have employed is to 

 take a large perforated tin can, about two feet in depth and 

 one foot in diameter, with a tin cover; such a pail as in fact 

 is used for the ordinary transportation of minnows, and 

 then attach to the top, but so as to clear the cover, a piece of 

 wood about eighteen inches square and two inches thick, 

 with a circular hole, into which the pail is fastened tightly. 

 This may be filled with minnows, and the whole arrangement 

 placed in deep water, if possible where there is a current, 

 and tied to some object on shore to prevent it floating away. 

 The buoyancy of the wood will keep the tin erect, and when 

 one wishes minnows they may be taken out from the top by 

 means of a small dip-net, with a handle about a foot long. 

 All the various kinds of submerged boxes made of wire netting 

 are not of much use, as the minnows rub themselves constantly 

 against the meshes and wear off their scales. 



The labour of capturing minnows, frogs, grasshoppers and 

 other insects is almost as great as that of taking bass. 



For grasshoppers and moths, if a small butterfly-net is 

 used, a dozen or two may be taken in an hour; but with 

 frogs, which always haunt the edge of a pond or stream and 



