178 COARSE FISH. 



spawning season, but few diseased roach. There 

 is a cast of a curious roach in the Piscatorial 

 Society's museum. This roach, a one pound 

 fifteen ounces fish, was dropsical, and of extra- 

 ordinary depth, swollen out beyond all ordinary 

 proportions. Roach from lakes and ponds are 

 seldom such handsome fish as those from a quick- 

 running stream. 



