“ SUN-SPEARING.” 127 
value of the latter gift, may perhaps inquire its con- 
nection with sun-spearing. In reply, Iam bound to 
premise, as well for my own peace of mind as to 
prevent inquests, that drowning in this pursuit is a 
contingency quite within the capability of an awk- 
ward practitioner. In the event of such a swubmer- 
gency, as Mrs. Malaprop might possibly say, either 
of the accomplishments indicated would of course be 
invaluable. The tyro therefore had better look to it 
—I am not further responsible for untoward results. 
In proceeding to describe the sun-spear, it would 
grieve me to think that any person could confound 
it with the articles bearing the same name in the 
limbo of the squire’s forfeited engines of poaching. 
The relation in fact is more nominal than real. The 
metallic-part of the instrument is thus constructed : 
—ZInto a small flat bar of best Swedish iron, 12 in. 
long, 2 in. wide, and 3 in. thick, 12 teeth of best 
spring or shear steel, 3 in. long, } in: diameter in the 
shank, double barbed, and carefully pointed as the 
best fish-hook, are welded, riveted, or better screwed, 
as the latter admits of a new tooth being easily added 
in the event of one being broken or damaged. To the 
upper side or edge of the bar carrying the teeth de- 
scribed, a light socket for receiving the handle is 
attached by one or other of the processes indicated for 
fixing the “comb” or teeth. The latter should in ad- 
dition be carefully tempered ; and the whole blacked 
