THE ASIATIC CARP. 
CARP, DACE AND MINNOW. 
When we please to walk abroad, If the sun’s excessive heat 
For our recreation, Make our bodies swelter, 
In the fields is our abode To an osier hedge we get 
Full of delectation ; ‘ For a friendly shelter ; 
Where in a brook, Where in a dyke, 
With a hook, Perch or pike, 
Or in a lake, Roach or dace, 
Fish we take ; We do chase 
There we sit Bleak or gudgeon, 
For a bit, Without grudging ; 
Till we fish entangle. We are still contented, 
Piscator’s Song. 
A the fishes of the Carp family have received but slight con- 
sideration from American writers upon angling, I am convinced thai 
they deserve a chapter in this book, on account of their growing popularity 
among the great angling-democracy of the nation. They are the favorite 
fishes of hundreds of thousands of modest fresh-water fishermen, and when 
this continent shall have become more densely populated, and the oppor- 
tunities for field sports more restricted, it is hoped that the inhabitants of 
our cities, through the intervention of law and fish culture, may have 
opportunities for fishing equal to those now enjoyed by the people ot 
Southern England. When that day comes the Cyprinida must be counted 
upon for the principal contribution to their pleasures. 
Our cyprinoids are known to us, for the most part, by old English 
names—names which are dear to lovers of Waltonian literature, and which 
