SMALL GAME PISHES OF ENGLA]N-D 



forest, plunged over, dived down and brought it up, apparently a 

 tremendous fish story ; but a very easy matter as these fishes ap- 

 pear to be helpless in shallow water, and are at a disadvantage 

 when they climb the mountains of the sea and approach the shore. 

 If the sea-serpent is ever chased to his lair and landed, I think he 

 will be foimd to be a gigantic Begalecus, a band of silver, fifty 

 or sixty feet long, three or four feet high, with a ' mane ' of 

 splendid crimson plumes three or four feet taU. If the angling 

 reader has sufficient curiosity to fish for this game, I have indicated 

 the way and means : equipped with a diver's armour he can walk 

 along the bottom of the sea, and hunt for the most beautiful fish 

 in the world. 



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