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ful. The angler may now begin to his trout tackle, 

 and get all right and in order, but yet by no means 

 to use it, or wet a line, this month ; but he may 

 lay night lines for eels in March, choosing dark 

 mild evenings when he lays them, and, unless the 

 night turns out very cold or frosty, the eels will 

 hasten and feed. 



There is in the 238th number of Blackwood's 

 Edinburgh Magazine for August, 1835, under the 

 head of Anglimania (the passion for angling), an 

 excellent and highly humorous description of the 

 way in which Christopher North killed his first 

 salmon . The gratification derived from the diver- 

 sion of angling is shown to be not only perfectly 

 innocent, but greatly conducive to improve the 

 heart, and to render the mind more attentive to the 

 beauties of nature in general, and to the charms of 

 rural scenery in particular. Rumour ascribes this 

 ingenious article to Prof. Wilson, whom the Editor 

 begs leave to thank, in his own name, and in the 

 name of all ardent lovers of angling. 



Audacity of a Fish. It happened one day, as 

 we were wading in calm water, among the coral 

 reefs of the Island of Guam, in search of mollus- 

 cous animals, we were assailed by a small cheto- 

 don, butting against us with the end of his snout, 

 as to defend the approach to the rock under which 

 it lodged, with many others of the same kind. 



