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two touchy curved cal- 

 ipers on duty, as al- 

 ready described. 



Following the hint 

 of past experience, I 

 concluded to explore 

 the depths of one 

 of these tunnels, 

 especially as I de- 

 sired a specimen of 

 the wily tenant for 

 poitiaiture; and it is, in- 

 deed, an odd fish that one 

 may land on the surface if he 

 be sufficiently alert in his angling. 

 No hook or bait is required in 

 this sort of fishing. Taking a 

 ong culm of timothy-grass, I in- 

 serted the tip into the burrow. 

 It progressed without impediment 

 two, three, six, eight inches, and 

 when at the depth of about ten 

 inches appeared to touch bottom, 

 which in this kind of angling is 

 the signal for a "strike" and the 

 landing of the game. Instantly 

 withdrawing the grass culm, I 



