48 NOISES MADE BY CARP AT NIGHT. [PART I. 
become naturalized in the pond, gradually suc- 
cumbed, as usual, to the muddiness of the water 
caused by the Carp, it being from that cause 
almost an impossibility to get the two to do well 
together, unless the piece of water in which they 
are placed have, running through it, a stream 
sufficiently strong to carry off the mud. 
It would seem, strange to say, that we that 
day caught every one of the large Roach which the 
pond contained. At least, I believe that never 
since—and that must be now some twelve or fif- 
teen years ago—has a single one approaching their 
size been taken out of it. 
If on a fine calm summer night you visit a 
piece of water well stocked with Carp, especially 
if its sides be perpendicular and faced with brick, 
and the fish be numerous in proportion to the 
feed, you will probably hear every now and then 
a long-drawn sucking noise, followed by one as 
of blowing. These are occasionally so loud and 
striking, that although I imagined them to proceed 
from Carp, yet I could scarcely persuade myself 
that such was the case, until I had lain down on 
the grass, and succeeded in touching them with 
my hand whilst in the very act of producing them, 
They are, I have no doubt, ascribable to the 
