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THE BUFFALO. 



to quality. A line about the size of an ordinary Black fish 

 (Tautog) line is sufficiently strong to land him. To this should 

 be attached a stout kirby or round bent hook of about the size 

 of No. 1, salmon, with a sinker of sufficient weight to suit the 

 current of the water and take your bait to the bottom, and you 

 are rigged. Except with your bait ; and what shall that be 1 

 Nothing that is used or heard of in the capture of others of the 

 finny tribe. To attract him then, you are to take some soft 

 cheese and raw cotton, and work them thoroughly together. 

 Bait with a piece of such a size as you think will suit his fancy and 

 cast into the water, and you will hardly fail to hook a Buffalo. 

 He is prepared in various ways for table use, and makes a 

 fair dish for a hungry man, but not such an one as would suit 

 the fastidious epicure. 



