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the muscular power of the fish and its long slender 

 form, aid it in burrowing into the sand, where it 

 lives until the tide returns ; they feed on various 

 marine worms and very small fish. 



The launce is caught in vast quantities at 

 Slapton Sands on the coast of Devon with a fine 

 meshed seine* of small size, and on some occasions 

 the catch is from six to ten bushels at a haul ; 011 

 some parts of the coast they are in such request 

 for food that they are sold by the score. May, 

 August, and December have been named in turn 

 as the month in which the adult fish spawn, but 

 nothing definite can with certainty be stated, as 

 the habit of this fish in that respect is but little 

 known. The lauuce is generally taken for bait by 

 raking the sand with a particular rake, a bent 

 wire, or by turning back the sand with a spade. 

 See articles " Baits" and " Apparatus." 



* See article " Apparatus." 



