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THE ' EXTINGUISHER.' 



forthcoming the spinner must not grumble if he has to take extra 

 pains to provide a feasible substitute. Any tin-smith could knock 

 up a few extinguisher heads in ten minutes. 



Another bantling of my own, to which I am able to give a still 

 less reliable ' character/ was intended to be a facsimile of a bleak; 

 the two sides of the little ' flat fish ' were represented by two slabs 

 of mother of pearl, carefully engraved with scales, gill-covers, &c., 

 and the eyes by the brass rivet which fixed them on to a centra 

 plate of metal. The hooks furnish a sort of rough resemblance to 

 the dorsal and anal fins. 



MOTHER OF PEARL BLEAK. 



The 'spin,' it will be observed, is obtained from the tail, 

 where the uncovered metal is left for the purpose. 



My experience of this bait is, I say, still smaller than with the 

 extinguisher, having been confined, in fact, to a single cast ! On 

 arriving at the river-side I saw a good fish feeding, I cast my new 



