COLLECTING EQUIPMENT. 



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required, and there is obviotisly no occasion to wet the hands 

 or warm the water by groping in it for the fish. In the 

 handle (A) is a small pair of bellows, worked by merely 

 pressing the knob B. The air passes down the small tube 

 (C), and bubbles up at the bottom, of the can. When at the 

 riverside, the perforated interior can be sunk in the water. 

 The ordinary pike-fisher's double live-bait kettle, which can 

 be got at any tackle-maker's, is practically the same thing 

 minus the aerating bellows. 



Fig. 33. Patent Aerating Bait-can. 



If the aquarium-keeper is unwilling to go to the expense of 

 buying a bait-can, he may easUy make one for himself out of 

 an ordinary oblong tin coffee-canister. This is done by solder- 

 ing the lid of the canister in its place, cutting a new opening 

 in the side of the tin, and covering this opening with a small 

 flap-lid. A handle of strong and rather thick wire is fastened 

 on each side of the aperture by soldering a strip of tin over 

 each end of the wire handle after about lin. of it has been 

 bent at right angles. The lid is affixed by bending about lin. 

 of its end over a piece of straight wire cut to such a length 



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