SUNDEW. SETTING NIGHT-LINES. l6l 



white blossoms growing, can form but little idea of its singular 

 appearance. Round the root it has a circle of leaves, and 

 each leaf has a number of red hairs tipped with pellucid glands 

 which exude a clear liquid, giving the leaves a dew-besprinkled 

 appearance as it glistens in the sunshine. These have proved 

 a fatal trap to numbers of insects. The foliage and stem are 

 much tinted with crimson, and the plant is small." 





CHAPTER XXIII. 

 Setting Night-lines. An Encounter with Poachers. 



OLD Cox met Frank one day, and said to him in his broad 

 Norfolk, which would be unintelligible to you were I to render 

 it faithfully, 



" I wish you would give me some more fish, Mr. Merivale. 

 You catch plenty, and if you would give me some that you 

 doesn't want, I would take them to Norwich market and sell 

 them. I sorely want to buy a pair of blankets for the old woman 

 and me afore the winter comes." 



" Well, Cox, you shall have all we -catch and don't want," 

 said Frank ; and when he saw his friends he said, 



" Let us make a mighty night-line, and set it like the long 

 lines the Cromer fishermen set for cods, and lay it in the broad 

 for eels, and give all we catch to Cox. Two or three nights' 

 haul will set him up for the winter." 



So they made a long night-line. They bought a quarter of a 

 mile of stout cord, and at distances of a yard from each other 

 they fastened eel-hooks by means of short lengths of fine 

 water-cord. Cox himself got them the worms, and then one 

 fine night they rowed the punt to the middle of the broad, and 

 set the night-line in the deep water of the channel. 



" Well," said Dick, " this is the longest and most wearisome 



If 



