20 Fisumne is Amertcan WATERS. 
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An Egyptian gentlemau fishing. 
was short, and apparently of one piece; the line usually sin- 
ele, though instances occur of a double line, each with its 
own hook, which was of bronze. In all cases they adopted a 
eround bait, as is still the custom in Egypt, without any 
float; and though several winged insects are represented in 
the paintings hovering over the water, it does not appear 
that they ever put them to the hook, and still less that they 
had devised any method similar to our artificial-fly fishing, 
which is still as unknown to the unsophisticated modern 
Eeyptians as to their fish.” 
Prime kinds of fishes are, and have for some years been, in 
the cities of this country, expensive articles of dict. It was 
so in Athens; and the following poem, quoted by Athenwus 
from “ The Purple” of Xenarchus (Yonge’s translation), is pre- 
sented for the benefit of those who retail stale fish from stands 
along the streets: 
‘* Poets are nonsense; for they never say 
A single thing that’s new. But all they do 
Ts to clothe old ideas in language new ; 
Turning the same things o’er and o'er again, 
And upside down. But as to fishmongers, 
They're an inyentive race, and yield to none 
