306 BAD OPINION OF THE CAKP. 



mid-water and lower. They are an exceedingly 

 wary fish, therefore never let them see you or 

 anything belonging to you through the water 

 veluti in speculum. They are cowardly fish, and 

 after a rolling round or two give in. 



THE CARP. Cyprinus Carpio. 



The yellowish olive carp stands at the head of 

 a very numerous family, giving, in my opinion, no 

 very honourable name to them. They are just as 

 bad a race as the salmon tribe are excellent. If 

 they are of Saxon descent, they are very inferior 

 to our worst Celtic Salmonidce. They happily 

 eschew the mountain streams of the Gael, Celt, 

 and ancient Briton. The Dutch waters of our 

 low lands suit their burly bodies best. Neither I 

 nor any one else' can tell you how to catch satis- 

 factorily with the angle the paterfamilias of the 



