u >ay i'oins at early nocu, land on the inner side 

 of the bank, and, leaving a few oarsmen to take charge of 

 the boat, walk over to the sea&ide of the bank, with a servant 

 or two to carry bait and lines, and, wading out into the surf, 

 waist deep, toss my line into the breakers in quest of bass. 

 I was usually armed with a light spear; for, as the Hear, 

 transparent waves came rolling in from the deep, and,, as 

 the pearly fragments of sea-shell passed glittering by you 

 with the flux and reflux of the tide, objects were occasionally 

 encountered, as brilliant, perhaps, but by no means as plea- 

 sant to look upon ; the eyes and jagged spines of immense 

 stingrays, buried in the sand, and lying in wait for their 

 prey ! One incautious step, and your leg may be transfixed 

 by the venomed weapon. Sometimes, indeed, the bass would 

 approach close to your feet in couple*, and gaze upon you, 

 seemingly with curioaity and alarm. You might perceive 

 their pectoral h'ns in rapid play, as if they panted; while at the 

 lightest movement of your arm to hurl your spear, they van- 

 ished in an instant, and left your weapon buried innocently in 

 the sand. On one delightful day, I was tempted to wade 

 deeper than usual into the sea, which was beautifully clear. I 

 passed along the narrow ridge of a reef, which extended east- 

 wardly to a considerable distance from the mainbank, while a 

 swash of some depth lay close within. I had unconsciously 

 remained until the advancing tide had covered the highest 

 parts of the ridge full waist-deep. Behind me stood my 

 servant "Cain" with my spear and a wicker-basket of bait. 

 An exclamation of terror from him made me turn, when I 

 beheld, but a few yards distant, between us and the shore, 

 and intercepting our retreat, a large shark, close on the side 

 of the ridge, head on for us, and waiving his tail backwards 

 and forward with a deliberate sculling motion ! " My 

 spear," said I: "keep close to me and shout when I do." 

 " Great God," said Cain (his eyes almost starting from the 

 sockets), " another one !" I looked, and saw, not one, but 

 tiuo other sharks lying behind the first, all in line, and in the 

 same attitude. Doubtless the bait in the wicker-basket had 

 attracted them, the advancing tide had carried them the 

 scent, and these grim pointers had paused to reconnoitre, 

 before they rushed on their prey ! If they attacked us we 

 were gone ! Not a moment was to be lost. It was one of 

 those frequent cases in which we find safety in audacity. 

 Repeating my order to Cain, and grasping my spear in both I 

 hands, I rushed upon the leading shark andttruck it down 

 violently across his nose, shouting, at the same time, at the 

 top of my voice ; while Cain, in a perfect agony of fear, gave 

 a loud yell and fell full length in the water. The manoeuvre 

 succeeded. The sharks ran off for deep water, and we took i 

 the crown of the ridge, nor looked back until we had accom- 

 plished the one hundred and fifty yards over which we had 

 to wade before we regained the 'bank. Elliott'' s Carolina 

 Sports. 



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%* We decline inserting the Letter by tl PUBLI- 

 cus" on & trial at Pool Assize. 



Four trouts, weighing 28 pounds, were taken 

 in a pool belonging to Mr. Morris, of Caeheilin, 

 Montgomeryshire, ou Wednesday week : one weighed 

 8 Ibs., two 7 Ibs. each, and one 6 Ibs. The fish had 

 been in the poad about ten year? . ' 



