22 AN ANGLER'S BASKET. 



hand about the trap was sufficient to induce all the rabbits 

 to walk carefully round it instead of into it. Just listen to 

 this, which is not a story, but a fact. I saw it I, with 

 my little eye. 



Some time ago a milkman, going his evening rounds, 

 placed a covered milk can at a street corner, and went off to 

 deliver his milk. The can was flat at the top, and the lid 

 opened on a hinge in the middle. As soon as the owner of 

 the can was well out of sight a collie dog appeared in the 

 immediate vicinage of the can. He prospected for a moment, 

 disappeared round the corner, returned with a fox terrier 

 chum, and the two together distinctly satisfied themselves 

 no one was about. They had planned this arrangement, and 

 their time was come. The collie lifted the lid by pushing^ 

 his nose under it, and took his fill of milk, while his friend 

 supported himself by his paws on the edge of the can and 

 did likewise, until, after a deep draught, they withdrew. 

 The lid fell, the performance was over, the dogs went away 

 as fast as they could, licking their lips and thinking what 

 smart fellows they were, and the milkman came back, 

 satisfied he knew his business, if anybody did, and no 

 mistake. You couldn't diddle him not likely; and a 

 couple of dogs, too ! Fiddlesticks. 



STONE-FLY FISHING. 



It is a comnlon fault with stone-fly fishers, who have not 

 had much practice at it, to strike at a rise just as they do in 

 fishing the artificial small sunk fly, that is, instantly. The 

 result is exasperating. I am, of course, presuming that you 

 have baited your female fly with the hooks embedded in the 

 side of the fly, so as to leave the wings uninjured and the legs 

 free to enable the insect to skate about the surface of the 

 water naturally ; then step quietly into the river, turn your 

 face up-stream ; and wading up quietly, with a line not much 



