CASTING NET. 9 



and weeds, if any, should be removed ; all mud 

 should be washed clean away, and the net 

 thoroughly wrung, avoiding all extra stamping 

 with the feet on the lower part of it. After each 

 time of using let the net be quite dry, and put 

 away in a dry place : a box is preferable, espe- 

 cially where rats frequent the spot.* 



* Would you procure a good casting net, I strongly recom- 

 mend Messrs. Mathews and Gent, Trinity Street, Cambridge. 

 From no part of the kingdom, not even from London itself, could 

 I ever meet with casting nets comparable to theirs for workman- 

 ship and management of the widening stitch the latter so ad- 

 justed as to make the throwing of them perfect from the hands 

 of a good artist. 



