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from the Gardens to the sea (which we will call 

 Piccadilly), the innocents would be stopped short by 

 the nets, and caught by the rods ; they would be 

 knocked on the head by the wheels (mill-wheels) ; 

 one out of a thousand would get away safely. 

 Rotten Row would soon become depopulated, Ken- 

 sington Gardens spawnless, and the race extinct; 

 the ogres would give up preserving our race.* 



PERCH AND GOLD FISH. 



Both perch and gold fish can be hatched in 

 boxes. Perch spawn may be found at the end of 

 April or beginning of May hanging on to the bushes 

 or weeds by the water side, or it may be obtained 

 by the plan hit upon by my friend Captain Berkely, 

 2nd Life Guards, who writes me thus : " I have 

 found out a good plan of securing perch spawn, and 

 a more natural one. Set a bow-net alongside 

 weeds, with a red flower at the bottom of it ; the 

 perch will come in, and if left quietly in it, will 

 hang their strings of ova to the cross-strings and all 

 over the net. One morning I got a pint pot quite 

 full from the perch which had gone in, picking it 

 off the strings. The net had been left set in the 

 lake for three days and three nights." 



The spawn of gold fish may be collected from the 

 weeds on which they deposit it, or it may be taken 



* See article on salmon by myself, "Household Words," 

 July 20, 1861. Excellent models of these nets have been de- 

 posited by the Fisheries Preservation Association in the South 

 Kensington Museum. 



