CONCERNING SMALL FRY. 17 
tansy,” the little fishes must be fried with yolk of 
eggs, the flowers of cowslips and of primroses, 
and a twig of tansy. In colour the minnow is 
dappled, or waved like a panther, with sky-blue 
sides, and milk-white belly. “‘ Piscator” sets down 
“the pink” as a sharp biter, and a fit sporting 
fish for boys, young anglers, or women that love 
recreation. 
The minnow haunts like spots to those which 
trout love, and is fond of fresh, running water. 
Bright, pebbly bottoms it prefers to sediment, and 
being essentially a social fish, it invariably swims 
in shoals. If you approach stealthily from the 
meadow-bank into “Minnow Bay,” you may see 
the pink “at home,” and of all little fishes he is 
the most sprightly and interesting. Watch the 
silvery shoal in its graceful evolutions, and you 
will know well what is meant by the poetry of 
motion. The only fit parallel to a school of 
silvery minnows in the water, is a flock of 
burnished starlings in the air. There is no ap- 
parent guiding spirit, yet the fifty move like one. 
They progress as by some hidden force; the 
water divides before them, and they wave through 
its liquidness. Minnows have the power common 
to most fishes of rapidly assimilating to the 
varying colour of the stream. They change 
from brown to gold, from gold to brown. To 
