KEEE-DKAG. 1 01 



Let us see what this fisherman is so busy about, and 

 what that horse is doing as he paces backward and 

 forward belly-deep in the sea, from one end of the 

 beach to the other, then retracing his steps, as if he 

 were ploughing the shallows. And why does the fisher- 

 man watch the horse so attentively ? Hark ! what says 

 he ? He shouts to the diminutive urchin that rides the 

 horse to come in ; and now he eagerly goes down to the 

 edge of the sea, as the beast and his little rider come 

 ashore. We will go and see. 



The man is civil and communicative, and lets us into 

 the whole secret ; though now indeed that we are on the 

 spot, it is sufficiently patent. The horse draws behind 

 him an implement called a keer-drag ; a net, which is 

 stretched upon an oblong iron frame, that forms its 

 mouth. Behind, the net tapers to a point, but is left 

 open there in the making, and only tied with a string. 

 The iron frame keeps the net-mouth open, and being 

 attached by a bridle to a rope, which is fastened to the 

 horse's harness, scrapes the sea-bottom as he proceeds ; 

 whatever is collected passing into the net, and accumu- 

 lating at the narrow point. 



Now the shallows just here are alive with swarms of 

 another edible species of Crustacea, the Shrimp, 1 par 



1 Crangon vulgaris, a figure of which may be seen in the lower part of 

 Plate xi. 



