XVI CONTENTS. 



CHAPTER XII, 



ECONOMY OF AJS OYSTEE-JPAEM. 



PAGE 



Englisli Oyster-Farms— rWhitstable — Pont Oyster-Grounds — Price of 

 Brood — ^"Natives" — Colne Oyster-Beds — Cost of Working the 

 Beds — Increase of the Oyster — Demand for the Bivalve — Collect- 

 ing for the Beds — Newhaven Oyster-Beds — The "Whisker'd 

 Pandora " — Song of the Dredger— Oysters in America . . 254 



CHAPTER XIII. 



CUE SHELL-FISH FISHEEIES. 



Productive Power of Shell-Pish — ^Varieties of the Crustacean Family 

 —Study of the Minor Shell-Fishes— Demand for Shell-Fish— 

 Lobsters — ^A Lobster Store-Pond described — Natural History of 

 the Lobster and other Crustacea — March of the Land-Crabs — 

 Prawns and Shrimps, how they are caught and cured — A. Mussel- 

 Farm — How to grow bait 265 



CHAPTER XIV. 



FOEEIGN PISHEEY EXHIBITIONS AND HOME AQUAEIUMS. 



Amsterdam Fishery Exhibition — The Variety of Exhibits at a Fishery 

 Exhibition — The Dutch Cure — Exhibition at Arcaohon — The 

 higher aspects of a Fishery Exhibition — Questions for Solution — 

 The great question, How to Capture ! — Mr. Buckland's Museum of 

 Economic Fish Culture — ^The Brighton and Crystal Palace Aquaria 

 and the Lessons which may be derived from them . . . 288 



CHAPTER XV. 



THE FISHEE-FOLK, 



The Fisher-People the same everywhere — Growth of a Fishing Village 

 — Marrying and giving in Marriage — ^Newhaven, near Edinburgh 

 — Newhaven Fishwives— A Fishwife's mode of doing Business — 

 Superstitions — Dunbar — Buckhaven — Scene of the Antiquary: 

 Auchmithie— Smoking Haddocks — The Eoimd of Fisher Life — 

 Fittie and its quaint Inhabitants 299 



CHAPTER XVI. 



STOEIES OF FISHEE LIFE. 



Signs and Tokens— A French Fishwoman— The Fishwives of Paris— 



The Stoiy of a Prestonpans Widow — Psalm John of Whelkholes 



Jean Cowie's Story — Fisher Names — ^Dramatic Sketch — Growth of 

 a Storm—" The Last Scene of All " 320 



