CH. I1.] CARP, EELS, AND ASSCHYLUS. 37 
by poachers for salmon when lying at the bottom 
in rivers:—it is then called “stroke-hauling.” 
Grasshoppers, two put on back to back, form 
by no means a bad bait for Carp late in the sum- 
mer, but then they should be suspended by the 
float about four or five inches from the bottom, 
if possible, near some weeds or water-lilies, and 
not very far from the bank. I was at home one 
Long Vacation, when I supposed myself to be 
reading Aischylus, inter alia. This I performed 
by taking down to a summer-house, adjoining a 
pond well-stocked with Carp, in one hand my 
Eschylus and Lexicon, and in the other a cou- 
ple of rods all ready for action. These latter I 
laid in duly baited with grasshoppers (for I had 
not then discovered the bread-dodge), and re- 
tired to the summer-house, returning to visit 
them after each hundred lines had been got 
through. That was, at least, the rule I proposed 
to myself, but I suspect I looked up occasionally 
before I got to the end of the hundred, and, 
if I saw the top of a rod bending, did not make 
a point of waiting to finish them. Besides the 
rods I had also some half-dozen night-lines set, 
baited with worms for eels, which I visited peri- 
odically—I think at the end of each scene. What 
