ISO NATURALIST'S CABINET. 



The frog an enemy to the carp. 



prehension either of disease, or any other incon- 

 venience. 



The frog is a mortal enemy to the carp, more 

 so by destroying its spawn, than by fastening 

 himself on its head, a circumstance which has, 

 however, been strongly asserted as a fact, and 

 that the carp pines away in consequence of the 

 close adhesion of the frog, which cannot be se- 

 parated from the head of the fish without extreme 

 force, or killing. 



" The angler's patience," says the author of 

 Rural Sports, " will be peculiarly called forth, in 

 attempting to beguile the large carp, although 

 small ones will generally bite eagerly : the rod 

 and line should both be long, and of the strong- 

 est materials. A quill float, a hook of size cor- 

 responding to the bait, and whipt to good silk- 

 worm-gut, on which one shot should be placed, 

 twelve inches from it. Three rods may be em- 

 ployed ; one with the bait at mid-water, another 

 a foot or less from the bottom, and the third to 

 lie upon it, when the line and lead are not dis- 

 covered, as in the two former ; the places in- 

 tended to be fished in should, the night before, 

 be ground-baited with grains, blood, and broken 

 worms, incorporated together with clay ; the 

 hook-baits should be red worms, taken out of 

 tan, flag or marsh worms, green peas so boiled 

 as to soften but not to break the skin, and throw- 

 ing some in now and then; when this bait is 



