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dozen large, black crickets. The 

 damp, cool place, together with 

 the rough bark, evidently afforded 

 them an excellent hiding place, 

 which they had promptly adopted 

 as a home. Crickets being at 

 that time a seasonable bait, my 

 surprise was a pleasant one. 



in certain little eddies and no way 

 to catch them? That's what hap- 

 pened to me on several trips until 

 I made a net out of minnow seine 

 to carry in my pocket. 



And this is how I made it: 

 First, I cut a piece of seine about 

 16 in. wide by 24 in. long. Both 



Now that cricket home has be- 

 come permanent. I brought the 

 tree trunk closer to the house and 

 placed it near the cistern. I keep 

 it covered with a couple of old 

 gunny sacks, over which I oc- 

 casionally douse a bucket of 

 water. Whenever the bass down 

 at the pond telegraph that they 

 would like a few crickets for sup- 

 per, all I do is to pick up one 

 corner of my sacks and gather 

 as many as needed, in a minute 

 or two. 



A HANDY MINNOW NET 



BY HARRY E. SMITH 



Were you ever fishing when the 



trout wouldn't take a fly or when 



it was desirable to have some 



minnows; with thousands of them 



sides of this I bound with strips 

 of muslin about 3 in. wide, mak- 

 ing loops or hems through which 

 the handle could be pushed, as 

 shown in Fig. 1. 



Next, I doubled the hems or 

 loops together and stitched the 



rear end together about half way 

 to loops, as shown in Fig. 2. This 

 gives us a sort of scoop shovel 

 shape net which only lacks the 

 handle and can be folded into a 

 very small space. 



The handle is cut from almost 

 any convenient bush or tree in the 

 shape of a crotched stick with the 

 branches as long as the loops on 



