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discovered, on looking up, that the bladder had dis- 

 appeared. Calling Angus the boatman's attention to 

 the circumstance, we by-and-by saw it appear on the 

 surface. Winding up the line, and seizing an oar 

 each, we rowed rapidly down the lake. By the time 

 the place was reached, the difficulty in dragging the 

 bladder below the surface had so tired out the fish 

 that it was a simple matter to cut the line from the 

 bladder and secure it to the one on our rod. x\fter 

 rowing to the shore, a splendid specimen of the Salmo 

 ferox, fourteen pounds in weight, was landed. 



The Common Toad is also found in the district. 

 It is often kept by gardeners, being extremely useful 

 in killing insects in greenhouses and garden frames. 

 Like the frog, it passes the winter in a dormant state ; 

 and several cases are known of its living for a number 

 of years. Pennant, in his 'British Zoology,' mentions 

 a tame toad that lived for more than forty years, when 

 it was killed by a raven. The stories current of toads 

 living for centuries embedded in blocks of stone may 

 safely be consigned to the region of myth. 



The amount of ignorance which in this " en- 



