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Currayh, or Irish Fishing Boat. I saw a 

 woman sitting in a curragh, fishing for codlings 

 and gunners, watching the hooker as she shot the 

 spillets ; this vessel was composed of a few slight 

 hoops secured together with cords, and overlaid 

 by a covering of canvass, rendered waterproof by a 

 coating of tar and tallow ; the machine was so 

 unsubstantial that it might be carried by a school- 

 boy ; it scarcely rested on the surface of the sea, 

 and yet the young islander sate in perfect security 

 in this frail vessel, a couple of handlines coiled at 

 her feet, and the bottom of the curragh was over- 

 spread with the produce of her fishery. 



Wild Sports of the West. 



Chub and Trout. A friend of mine angling 

 with a fly some time since, in Worcestershire, 

 hooked a chub which weighed two pounds and a 

 half; at the same moment a trout, about half a 

 pound, took the drop fly, and was soon exhausted, 

 while the chub, from its size and strength, kept 

 the line so tight as to suspend the trout in the 

 air for near a quarter of an hour ; but the lucky 

 angler brought them both safe to land. 



Sporting Mag. N. S. vol. ii. 



Duck and Trout. As a gentleman was ang- 

 ling in the Mill Dam below Winchester, he acci- 

 dentally threw his line across a strong white duck, 

 which suddenly turning round, twisted the gut 



