66 TREATISE ON FLY-FISHING. 



should be kept open at least forty-eight hours 

 during the week. 



Besides the perils which await the parents on 

 their journey from the sea, their young are also 

 in imminent danger on their route towards the 

 sea. The millers take them in traps, by thou- 

 sands, and dispose of them by the gallon to the 

 neighbours ; indeed, at times they are taken in 

 such vast quantities that pigs are regaled upon 

 their delicate flesh. 



Man is not content with employing his own 

 ingenuity in capturing this delicious fish, he calls 

 to his aid the sagacity of the dog, which we find 

 becomes, by practice, as expert a fisherman as his 

 master : numerous instances of this are on record. 

 The following are well-established facts : In 

 the work by the Reverend William Hamilton, 

 an interesting account is related of the assist- 

 ance afforded by a water-dog to some salmon 

 fishermen, when working nets in shallow pools. 

 The dog takes his post in a ford where the water 



