12 AN ANGLING INCIDENT. 



affording an article relishable at the breakfast 

 table, at least by many. 



AMICTJS. Thank you for this information ; 

 and now let me remind you of what you were 

 about to mention, from the letter before you, 

 which you thought would interest me, and I 

 have no doubt will. 



PISCATOR. In this letter which I have just 

 received from a friend, an ardent angler and a 

 very accurate observer, and as truthful a relator, 

 he mentions an incident strikingly showing 

 how low is the sense of feeling in the trout. 

 The incident was this: He was fishing in 

 Derbyshire, in the Lathkin, that river cele- 

 brated by Izaak Walton as affording the best 

 trout in England; he caught one of herring- 

 size, an under-size according to the rules for 

 angling there. In extricating the hook, which 

 he did hastily, a portion of the upper jaw was 

 torn off. The fish, as he could not keep it, he 

 threw back into the river. Returning an hour 

 after, he made a cast at the same spot, hooked 

 a fish, and on landing it, to his surprise, found 

 it was the identical one he had taken before, 

 minus the half of its jaw. What think you of 

 this ? Could you have imagined it ? 



