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noticed that he is not as deep a fish as some carp are., and 

 that ho has not a very marked " Roman nose." Carp 

 vary very much in configuration in different waters and 

 according to their age. I believe Mr. Weaver's carp is 

 the largest on record as taken in English waters, as it 

 considerably " tops" the 19| lbs. fish taken in the " White 

 Sitch Lake," and whose picture is still to be seen at Weston 

 Hall, the seat of the Earl of Bradford, in Staffordshire. I 

 believe, too, that the Harting carp now figures for the first 

 time in a book on Pish and Fishing. 



There are very many topics connected with this interest- 

 ing fish which I should like to enter into at length if space 

 permitted. Their tenacity of life is surprising. How many 

 hours they will live in an ordinary creel after being caught 

 I should be almost afraid to say. Humane anglers — and 

 all true anglers, I believe, are humane — give them a blow 

 on the head after landing them, and do not care to try 

 physiological experiments. But properly packed in moist 

 moss, with a mouthful of bread steeped in brandy, occa- 

 sionally renewed en route, they may be carried almost any 

 distance in safety. In France they transport them from 

 one place to another, wrapped in fresh grass, and they will 

 keep alive for days if the porous basket in which they are 

 enclosed is dipped as seldom as once in every twenty-four 

 hours in fresh water. I have read and been told that in 

 Holland they are suspended in nets in cool cellars and fed 

 on bread and milk for months, by which process they are 

 fattened for table. I have never been able to get this 

 statement verified, and so I record it for what it is worth. 

 Carp will live in water of 80°, and yet maintain life for 

 some considerable time when frozen in blocks of ice. Of 

 all fish they are the most sensitive of electricity and the 



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