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shoal will sometimes escape, for if one of them springs over 

 it, the rest will follow like sheep. 



The Danish fishermen have a similar mode of taking the 

 horn-fishes, called "green-bone" from the color of their 

 bones. They are timid, and afraid of the nets, and when 

 the shoals approach, the fishermen commence a regular 

 bombardment with stones, and so frighten them into their 

 meshes. 



A writer mentions a similar practice in Wales : 

 *'The fishermen," he observes, "commenced their opera- 

 tions at every ebbing of the tide, by stretching a seine 

 across the river, several hundred paces above the coast; 

 and whilst drawing it towards the sea, they incessantly dis- 

 turbed the water by beating the surface, as well as hurling 

 into it the heaviest stones they could poise. The affrighted 

 fish made at once for the sea, which, however, they could 

 not reach except by passing through the intervening shal- 

 lows. Here they were pursued by dogs trained for the 

 purpose, and clubbed or speared by the men. I have 

 frequently seen from one to two hundred fine fish, weighing 

 from ten to twenty pounds each, taken in this extraordinary 

 way." 



