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observed that the fish was by no means at home. 

 Coming repeatedly to the surface, it was soon 

 espied by a wherryman, who pushed off in a boat, 

 armed only with a boat-hook, in pursuit of it. 

 After a good deal of racing and dodging to and 

 fro, the man succeeded in fixing the hooked end 

 of the pole in the Shark's mouth. This it actively 

 resented; but it was not long before its struggles 

 grew less violent, when by an adroit jerk it was 

 flung into the boat, where it capered and snapped 

 in a further series of futile protestations. It is 

 probable that the fish had come into the neigh- 

 bourhood in pursuit of the Herring shoals. On 

 the fish I found several rather pretty specimens 

 of fish lice answering to the description of Pandarus 

 bi-color. 



ON THE PKOWL 



It is a very common occurrence in summer to see 

 Flounders harrying Shrimps at the margins of the 

 mud flats and at the edge of the Bure. At such 

 times, as the crustaceans, playing in swarms, are 

 driven into the shallows by their pursuers, they fling 

 themselves to a height of several inches out of the 

 water, the Flounder usually contriving to snap up 



