42 AN ANGLER'S BASKET. 



adopted a smart and highly original method of landing his 

 trout. He was attended by a satellite with a basket, who 

 stood on the bank and waited. When the ingenious gentleman 

 in the river hooked a trout he waited not an instant, but 

 giving his double-handed rod a big lift upwards and backwards, 

 he jerked the fish out of the water, fired him up into the 

 air, let go his reel, and the unfortunate trout fell in the field 

 behind at the feet of the piscatorial attendant. Boy unhooked 

 trout : business repeated. Now to my mind there is something 

 far more successful in fishing with very fine tackle which 

 would probably not bear the dead weight of half a pound, 

 and in playing a heavy fish, in circumventing his tricks, his 

 runs, his somersaults and dodges, than there is in fishing 

 with tackle which might be supposed to resemble a clothes 

 prop and a cart rope. 



WORM GATHERING. 



I saw two novel methods employed a short time ago in 

 order to save time in getting worms. One was to mix half 

 a pound of common salt in a bucket of boiling water and pour 

 it quickly over a vegetable bed in the garden ; the other was 

 to drive in a spade and keep on working it about without 

 taking anything out. In both cases all the worms in the 

 neighbourhood came on to the surface of the ground 

 apparently deluded into the belief that it was either an 

 earthquake or the judgment day. They were then picked up 

 and bagged. Such are the triumphs of science. 



FISHING AT FILEY. 



St. Paul's injunction to the Thessalonians, " Study to be 

 quiet," is not understanded of the man whose idea of a 

 holiday is six a side in a railway carriage, with Atmt Sallys 

 and switchbacks to follow. Truly the lovers of these things 



