ISO SPRING-TIDE. 



bottle being carefully stopped, was then let 

 down by a string to the bottom of the canal, 

 and was soon surrounded by all the perch 

 in the neighbourhood, who finding they 

 could not assail the imprisoned shrimps, 

 swam round and round the outside, rubbing 

 their snouts against the glass, like hungry 

 gamins at the steamy windows of a cook's 

 shop. While thus engaged, the angler let 

 down a shrimp on a hook by the side of 

 the glass, and you may be sure he was not 

 long without a bite. 



S. An excellent contrivance, and cer- 



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tainly much to be preferred to the many 

 abominations composed for " ground bait," 

 and used by some people in bottom fishing. 

 These preparations appear to be devised 

 chiefly that they may rival in filthiness the 

 recipes of the old pharmacopoeias, in which 

 every imaginable nastiness may be found. 

 But see, there is a breeze springing up 

 which curls the water. On with a " soldier 



