FISHES AND FISHING. 9 



strates how powerful must be the instinct of this 

 genus of the finny tribe to get out of salt, or brackish 

 water, into fresh, at certain seasons of the year ; 

 further, and most splendid examples of it are to be 

 seen in various parts of the world ; and this American 

 ^^ go a-head'^ propensity was exhibited by the artifi- 

 cially bred little salmon endeavouring to make their 

 way from the lower water to the higher, and over- 

 coming the obstruction, to the great amusement of 

 Her Majesty at the Dublin exhibition, for the water 

 these young fish endeavoured to escape from was not 

 salt or brackish. 



When I grew a little older, I sometimes accom- 

 panied my father and mother to the tail of the mil), 

 where they caught a large dish of fine flounders in a 

 very short time, with what, I knew a few years after, 

 was very rough tackle — but these fish are not par- 

 ticular. 



In the large lake, or canal in the garden, through 

 which always flowed a supply of fresh water, were 

 very large eels ; proper lengths of line, with baited 

 hooks were attached to bungs, into each of which 

 were fixed a good-sized white feather ; these wer® 

 thrown into the canal on favourable nights, and in 

 the morning the bungs were easily discovered, and I 

 often saw them taken out by my father with a long- 

 handled rake, generally with a fish attached, and I 



