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cork about one inch in depth and the size of a 

 regular ship biscuit ; have a pouch made of coarse 

 gauze, in which a slice of bread, the size of the cork 

 can be j^laced, the gauze retaining the bread flat 

 against the cork. From the margin of the cork 

 suspend around the bread a dozen hooks, about the 

 size of those usually employed in trout bait fishing, 

 these hooks, to be tied on strons^ grut, six inches lono^, 

 and on the points of a few of them a small dice of 

 bread should be placed. Armed with half a dozen 

 of these infernal machines, and provided with a 

 landing net, go in your boat above where the mullet 

 are known to resort, drop your corks in the water, 

 about eight or ten yards apart, scattering some 

 crumbs among them, and let the tide or current float 

 them to the fish, keeping the boat a good way in the 

 rear. Don't be in a hurry, the fish will not keep 

 you long waiting ; each float will soon be surrounded, 

 and when the mullet find that they can not carry 

 away the bread wholesale, they will knock the floats 

 with their noses, slap them with their tails, and in a 

 few seconds you Avill have a prize on each trimmer, 

 liooked by back, tail, or side. If the captives run 

 large much sport will be enjoyed in retaking your 

 floats, for it is wonderful how Ion or a four or five 



