XIII 



The Angler and the Blackfish 



" The bluefish leaping as they pass, 

 The brown-strip'd, pearl-enamell'd bass, 

 Blackfish, vveakfish, porgie, cod, 

 Precious morsels for the rod, 

 The crab, the shrimp, the mussel-shell, 

 The sea-egg with its thorny cell, 

 The moss to slippery rock that clings, 

 The kelp, the sea-weed with its rings, 

 The lavish treasures of the sea 

 Ever charming are to me." 



ISAAC MCLELLAN. 



CTOBER. How delight- 

 ful this time of year for 

 fishing ! Provided, of 

 course, that the fish 

 sought for are not of 

 the salmon family, gray- 

 ling excepted. The 

 trout are now caring 

 for their young, and a 

 fish of any species is 

 never more valuable 

 alive than when it is 

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" Here where the salt 



tides ebb and flow 

 O'er the brown rocks 



deep below, 

 The greedy blackfish 



come to share 

 The shelly bounties 



ever there." 

 Haunts of Wild Game. 



