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THE CO URGE. 



capture. When you have a score or so, pour them into your 

 Sand-Eel basket or courge, which should be placed ready in a 

 pool you have dug for it in the sand close at hand. 



The Courge or Sand-Eel Basket (fig. 19). These curiously- 

 shaped baskets are made of fine willow or osier twigs, not 



FIG. 19. 



more than about one-eighth of an inch in thickness, and are 

 woven sufficiently close to prevent the escape of the Sand-Eels, 

 whilst in the centre an opening is left for their introduction, 

 which is closed by a piece of flat cork accurately fitted to the 

 aperture. 



FIG. 20. Courge in tow. 



A piece of small rope having an eye in it is passed over 

 one end and firmly lashed at the other, by which it is towed 

 astern of the boat (fig. 20), the rope having first been made fast 

 through a hole in a small cleet, nailed to the stern of the 

 boat, just above the surface of the water, as shown above. 



