CHAP. v. Sense of Smell in Fish. 87 



have used with effect, and if you must use preserved fish, I would prefer 

 that method of preserving them. At best they are very inferior in 

 appearance and toughness to a fresh fish taken alive out of the bait-can, 

 and baited immediately on being killed. 



Moral. Don't put anything smelling of a public-house before a 

 total abstainer, a fish, and least of all before a Wallago attu, of which 

 hereafter. 



But the kindly reader who has been good enough to travel thus far 

 with me must be right weary of this chapter, and anxiously looking for 

 an end at which he can put down the book and rest. Further remarks 

 on spinning will therefore be reserved for another chapter. 



