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and continue till they spawn again ; bait as for Carp, 

 with the addition of a well scoured lob-worm ; fish 

 at bottom, hook No. 8 or 9, follow the same directions 

 as for Carp, and you cannot be wrong. The Tench 

 like muddy water better than clean, and breed better 

 in pits and ponds than rivers, they will live in mud, 

 and are sometimes found so thick and ugly as to be 

 disagreeable to look at, they have been known to take 

 the shape of a hole, where they must have been fixed 

 for many years. 



Although they breed best in pits and ponds, still a 

 river Tench is a beautiful fish, he has a handsome eye 

 and small smooth scales, tinged with gold, and their 

 fins are of a dark slate colour, are thick and large ; 

 they are a strong fish, but nothing like so crafty as 

 the Carp. When you take them from muddy places, 

 put them in water for a day or two, and they will im- 

 prove ; like the Carp, they are tenacious of life, and 

 may be carried to almost any distance in a wet cloth. 

 They are excellent eating, especially when taken from 

 a stream, and dressed the same as Carp. 



o 

 THE PERCH. 



SONG. THE PATRIOT PERCH. 

 (TUNE.) " Katty o' Linc/i." 



1. 



Now let us suppose brute creatures could speak, 

 And plain English too, or I should puzzled be, 

 Knowing but little of Latin or Greek, 

 Or French, its all of it gibberish to me ; 



