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232 FTSHK9 AND FISHING. 



fine dimgliill cock took a fancy to the fly, and became 

 hooked in the soft part of his beak ; feeling the hook, 

 the cock moved from the spot ; in doing so he pulled 

 the rod down, with which he was running away in 

 great alarm ; the angler, seeing his rod departing, 

 gave chase, regained the hold of his rod, when the 

 cock mounted into the air, and was with great diffi- 

 culty brought down and secured. 



At Hampton Ait, on which ducks are generally 

 kept, I have seen them take a gudgeon with the 

 hooks which had been left outside by some angler, 

 who had been spinning or trolling ; in most cases 

 the duck was killed by it, and often the tackle much 

 injured, through the carelessness of the angler. 



A boy named Donaldson, belonging to Coldstream, 

 while fishing very lately fur trout, in the Chapel 

 stream, below Tweed Mill, with a worm as a bait, 

 caught a mussel four inches long, and two broad, 

 which was found to contain no less than forty fine 

 pearls of different sizes ; some of the pearls are thought 

 to be worth ten shillings each. The day before, the 

 same boy hooked and landed a fine clean salmon, 

 eight pounds weight, with trout tackle. — "Border 

 Advertiser." 



Oppian speaks of the nacre ; this shell fish is a 

 species of mussel, and furnishes mother-of-pearl. A 

 little fish of the crab genus resides within the sh.ell 



