A CART-LOAD OF EELS. 165 



In the morning they took up the line, and were well-rewarded 

 for their previous trouble. The eels they took pretty well 

 loaded the donkey-cart which old Cox had borrowed, and 

 he took them to Norwich and made a good profit out of 

 them. 



Having amused themselves once with the night-lines the boys 

 did not care to use them again, for it was infra dig. to catch fish 

 for profit. However the profits were good to other people, so 

 they gave the line to old Cox, and told him that he must get 

 some one to set it, and go shares with him. 



The next day Frank walked down to the village public-house 

 and stuck up the following notice in the bar, 



" If the person to whom the nets I have belong, will call at 

 my house and claim them, he shall have the nets and a good 

 thrashing." 



Frank was five feet eleven inches high, and well built in 

 addition, and he had always a look on his face which said 

 " I mean what I say ;' ; and the nets were never claimed. 



CHAPTER XXIV. 



"Water Insects. Aquaria. 



ONE July afternoon the boys had been fishing, and to seek 

 some shade and coolness while eating their lunch, they had 

 driven the yacht into a quiet pool among the reeds, which 

 almost met over them. The water below them was very 

 clear and still, and as it was only about two feet deep they 

 could see the bottom quite plainly, and they soon found that it 

 was well worth a close inspection. The pool was teeming with 

 insect life. The surface of the water was covered with tiny 

 whirligig beetles, which were skimming about in mazy, corus- 

 cating evolutions. 



" Those whirligig beetles," said Dick, " have their eyes made 





