DIAMOND RING FOUND IN FISH 109 



Catching Fish with their own Teeth. Gian- 

 netazzio writes on the mode of catching the 

 "belone," or garfish, in the Mediterranean by 

 means of its own teeth. The instruments are 

 made at Naples, and its capture successfully 

 practised there: 



further evidence that fish have a decided penchant for 

 gold rings; and inspires me with higher hope that my 

 own lost ring will some day come back to me : 



"DIAMOND RING FOUND IN A FISH A PORTISHEAD 

 INCIDENT. 



" For years there have been fine grey mullet in the 

 Portishead dock, which is opposite to and receives water 

 from the silvery Severn, and the people have been fishing 

 there most days, their catches varying in number and size, 

 the largest known weighing eight or nine pounds. 



"A good sized fish recently landed by a local amateur, 

 in humble circumstances, was taken home and without 

 anything unusual being noticed it was put in the larder. 



" Some time later, when the man's wife came to pre- 

 pare the fish for the table, she found it had swallowed 

 not only bait, but also a diamond ring, which people who 

 have seen it declare to be worth from ^25 to ^30. 



"In Bristol, when the incident of the finding of the 

 ring in the fish was reported, it was stated that a gentle- 

 man, while boating recently off the coast between Portis- 

 head and Weston-super-Mare, had lost a diamond ring, 

 which it was suggested might be the same as the one 

 found in the fish at Portishead. But no description of the 

 ring was forthcoming. The incident was regarded as 

 being perfectly natural, and the gentleman said he had 

 known of a watch of moderate size being found in the 

 stomach of a hake." 



