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swim against the current, and this is regu- 

 larly changing with the tide. Hence, when 

 the river current and the tide are both down- 

 stream, the fish run rapidly against it, but, 

 when the tide turns against the current and 

 the water moves slowly upstream, the fish 

 turn their heads once more to the ocean and 

 go a short distance back. 



DEAWING THE SHAD NET 



It is just at the change of the tide that the 

 fisherman puts out his long seine. On a 

 flat platform in the back of a great row-boat 

 of twelve or more oars, lies piled in careful 

 fashion the seine, sometimes half a mile in 

 length. Attached to each end of the net is 

 a long rope. One end of this is fastened to 

 a windlass on the shore, and the boat starts 

 out. Far into the stream the rowers take 

 it, paying out the net steadily as they ad- 

 vance. When they have crossed as far as 

 they may go without obstructing the navi- 

 gation of the channel, they turn the boat 

 downstream and, swinging in a great circle, 

 they bring up at a point on the shore* some 



