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fine dunghill cock took a fancy to the fly, and became 

 hooked in the soft part of his beak ; feeling the hook, 

 the cock moved from the spot ; in doing so he pulled 

 the rod down, with which he was running away in 

 great alarm ; the angler, seeing his rod departing, 

 gave chase, regained the hold of his rod, when the 

 cock mounted into the air, and was with great diffi 

 culty brought down and secured. 



At Hampton Ait, on which ducks are generally 

 kept, I have seen them take a gudgeon with the 

 hooks which had been left outside by some angler, 

 who had been spinning or trolling ; in most cases 

 the duck was killed by it, and often the tackle much 

 injured, through the carelessness of the angler. 



A boy named Donaldson, belonging to Coldstream, 

 while fishing very lately fur trout, in the Chapel 

 stream, below Tweed Mill, with a worm as a bait, 

 caught a mussel four inches long, and two broad, 

 which was found to contain no less than forty fine 

 pearls of different sizes ; some of the pearls are thought 

 to be worth ten shillings each. The day before, the 

 same boy hooked and landed a fine clean salmon, 

 eight pounds weight, with trout tackle. "Border 

 Advertiser." 



Oppian speaks of the nacre ; this shell fish is a 

 species of mussel, and furnishes mother-of-pearl. A 

 little fish of the crab genus resides within the shell 



