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will grow fat, and be easily taken by two people sur- 

 rounding them with a net ; or by means of a dog, with 

 which many are coursed and taken in moonlight nights a . 



PRESERVATION OF FISH. 



FISH are taken in various ways ; by a drag and flews, 

 during the night. Instead of plunging, poachers lash 

 bricks to a cord, and draw them to and from each other, 

 across the river or pond. To prevent this, put some old 

 sickles, scythes, or swords, into large lumps of wood, 

 and drop them in zig-zag directions along the river or 

 pond ; likewise stumps, with nails driven down into the 

 bottom. To find luggers, trimmers, sunk baits, eel-pots, 

 eel-lines, starkers, &c., walk on the sides of the waters, 

 with a pole and a strong cord, having a drag or creeper 

 on it : this, properly used, will find them ; it must be 

 thrown in different directions, late in the evenings. 



Pord-netters are a class of poachers not generally 

 known. What is called the pord-net consists of two 

 staves shod with iron, to which is fastened a net. In 

 quick running stony waters it is used with great effect. 

 The poachers wade a shallow stream, drive the trout to 

 their holds, and placing the staves so as to bring the net 

 round a stone or hold of any kind, they are said to pord, 



* Like St. Augustin's Confessions, these aphorisms seem of very 

 questionable service. Peter Pindar's ostler never tried the effect 

 of greasing the teeth of his customer's horses, till put up to the stra- 

 tagem by his ghostly adviser. EDITOR. 



