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extent fulfilled in the bait-cans sold at the tackle shops. 

 But there is still a want, which, so far as I am aware, 

 has never been successfully supplied — I mean the pro- 

 duction of a can of such form and construction t/iat it 

 may be conveniently carried, zuhen full, by a strap across 

 the fisJierman s shoulders. The want of such a can often 

 makes the whole difference between comfort and dis- 

 comfort in live-bait fishing. With the old can, the soli- 

 tary angler has at best a choice of evils : on the one 

 hand he may stop fishing and carry his can along with 

 him, or, on the other, he may leave his can and continue 

 his fishing operations, every step of which carries him 

 farther away from his baits. Live-baiting, in fact, except 

 from a punt or with 

 an attendant, thus be- 

 comes much like a game 

 of battledore, in which 

 the fisherman, who is of 

 course kept perpetually 

 moving, forms a not 

 inapt representation of 

 the shuttlecock. 



To remedy this in- 

 convenience I have had 

 a bait-can constructed (somewhat on the principle of 

 the ordinary pannier or creel), as shown in the engrav- 

 ing, which can be strapped comfortably over the shoulders 

 and carried by the fisherman, without fear of his losing 



