CH. III.] CAEP, EELS, AND ^SCHYLUS. 37 



by poachers for salmon when lying at the bottom 

 in rivers: it is then called "stroke-hauling." 



Grasshoppers, two put on back to back, form 

 by no means a bad bait for Carp late in the sum- 

 mer, but then they should be suspended by the 

 float about four or five inches from the bottom, 

 if possible, near some weeds or water-lilies, and 

 not very far from the bank. I was at home one 

 Long Vacation, when I supposed myself to be 

 reading ^Eschylus, inter alia. This I performed 

 by taking down to a summer-house, adjoining a 

 pond well-stocked with Carp, in one hand my 

 JEschylus and Lexicon, and in the other a cou- 

 ple of rods all ready for action. These latter I 

 laid in duly baited with grasshoppers (for I had 

 not then discovered the bread-dodge), and re- 

 tired to the summer-house, returning to visit 

 them after each hundred lines had been got 

 through. That was, at least, the rule I proposed 

 to myself, but I suspect I looked up occasionally 

 before I got to the end of the hundred, and, 

 if I saw the top of a rod bending, did not make 

 a point of waiting to finish them. Besides the 

 rods I had also some half-dozen night-lines set, 

 baited with worms for eels, which I visited peri- 

 odically I think at the end of each scene. What 



