184 BY HOOK AND BY CSOOK. 



Similar occurrences have been before and since re- 

 corded, but we do not know a case where the principal 

 part in the scene has been taken by one of such fine 

 proportions. 



How the accident happened is difficult to say ; it may 

 have been that the unusual number of boats excited 

 the fish to jump, and in falling he came across the 

 boat^s thwart and toppled over into it. 



Many an evening after dusk, while sitting by the 

 waterside, Ave have seen and heard small fish, such as 

 dace, raise their heads from the water and pick off flies 

 resting on the boats, and as a boat's thwart is only a 

 few inches above water-level it would be no difficult 

 matter for a large fish to make a mistake. We are 

 inclined to think that this accident happened from a 

 chance jump. 



