FISHES AND FISHING. 9 



strates how powerful must be the instinct of this 

 genus of the finny tribe to get out of salt, or brackish 

 water, into fresh, at certain seasons of the year; 

 further, and most splendid examples of it are to be 

 seen in various parts of the world ; and this American 

 "go a-head" propensity was exhibited by the artifi 

 cially bred little salmon endeavouring to make their 

 way from the lower water to the higher, and over 

 coming the obstruction, to the great amusement of 

 Her Majesty at the Dublin exhibition, for the water 

 these young fish endeavoured to escape from was not 

 salt or brackish. 



When I grew a little older, I sometimes accom 

 panied my father and mother to the tail of the mill, 

 where they caught a large dish of fine flounders in a 

 very short time, with what, I knew a few years after, 

 was very rough tackle but these fish are not par 

 ticular. 



In the large lake, or canal in the garden, through 

 which always flowed a supply of fresh water, were 

 very large eels ; proper lengths of line, with baited 

 hooks were attached to bungs, into each of which 

 were fixed a good-sized white feather ; these were 

 thrown into the canal on favourable nights, and in 

 the morning the bungs were easily discovered, and I 

 often saw them taken out by my father with a long- 

 handled rake, generally with a fish attached, and I 



