32 PEOSE HALIEUTICS. 



the tinkling of these bells. Tickling the ears of fish by 

 music, with a view to their capture, suggests the men- 

 tion of that more ordinary mode of tickhug by hand re- 

 sorted to in snaring trout, which is commemorated both 

 by Oppian and ^Uan as a very ancient device. Their 

 account of the proceeding is, ' that men wade in the sea 

 when the water is low, and stroking the fish nestling in 

 the pools, suddenly lay hands upon and secure them.' 



