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bottles often used as traps to capture him. 

 These traps are large glass jars with perforated 

 metal tops, and the bottom made like the mouth 

 of a lobster-pot. 



Minnows are most interesting little fish to 

 have in a fresh-water aquarium, and it is quite 

 surprising how tame they will become, even to 

 taking food from the hand of their keeper and 

 attending on all his movements. 



There are several ways of cooking these tiny 

 Cyprinidce. The most ordinary method, and 

 perhaps the best, is to treat them like whitebait, 

 " for which," says Mr. Manley from experience, 

 "they are an excellent substitute," and it is thus 

 enfriture that they are usually eaten in France. 

 Some connoisseurs pickle them, and pronounce 

 them a most savoury breakfast dish ; while 

 Father Izaak quaintly recommends that " their 

 heads and tails being cut off, and their guts 

 taken out, and not washt after, they prove excel- 

 lent for that use, that is, being fryed with yolks 

 of eggs, the flowers of cowslips, and of primroses, 

 and a little Tansie ; thus used they make a 

 dainty dish of meat." 



