CH. VI.] CRUEL REVENGE—LOBSTERS. 85 
three of these beasts with their teeth fast into a 
Cod which he had hooked,—and of another, where 
a man, before taking in a Cod which he had 
brought to the surface, pulled out with his hand 
no less than nine in succession, as they endea- 
voured to seize it. An attempt was made to utilise 
the Dog-fish, by extracting oil from them. They 
were however, from their numbers, half starved, and 
so miserably poor that it was a complete failure. 
Tt can hardly be wondered that Dog-fish are 
universally objects of detestation to fishermen, by 
whom no mercy is shewn them, and who some- 
times indeed wreak their vengeance on them in 
very cruel ways, such for instance as by sticking 
corks on their dorsal spines, when, being unable 
to descend, the poor wretches must miserably end 
their days upon the surface, unless released from 
their sufferings by a passing Gull. I have seen, 
when a boy, eight or ten of them tied along a 
stick, and thus sent adrift together. 
Besides the fish which I have mentioned as 
inhabiting the Scotch sea-lochs, in some of them, 
and particularly those of some of the Western 
Islands, Lobsters are numerous, and run to a great 
size. For these some friends and I, whilst in 
shooting quarters by one of these lochs, utilised 
