SCIENCE 
IS 
KNOWLEDGE. 
A PRACTICAL 
KNOWLEDGE 
!S 
POWER. 
JOURNAL FOR AMATEURS, 
Copyright Secured. 
Vol. II. 
NEW YORK, JUNE, 1879. 
No. 6. 
The Hunted Fisherman.— II. 
BY A. W. ROBERTS. 
HE next night I 
again visited the 
pond, accompani- 
ed by my "big- 
brother," our 
bulldog, and a 
written permit 
from the owner 
of the pond, grant- 
ing me permis- 
sion to fish night 
or day. 
I had also ex- 
temporized a bath- 
ing suit, which consisted of an undershirt 
and a pair of heavy flannel drawers, to 
protect me from the leeches and boat- 
flies. After reaching the pond, we got 
right to work, and on the first haul, one 
hundred and fifty sticklebacks were taken, 
and thousands of boat-flies, which, almost 
before we could place them in the pail, 
flew back to the pond. The second haul 
consisted of two hundred more fish and 
many masses of nests. 
We now prepared to return home, hav- 
ing all the fish that I could take care of. 
I felt thankful for not having met the 
policeman, who, in all probability, was 
taking a nap, somewhere on his beat. 
The day previous I had taken possession 
of all my mother's wash tubs, and placed 
in them a flooring of sand some three 
inches deep, and several bunches of 
plants. All the nests were placed in one 
tub, in the hope that the eggs might 
hatch out, but at the expiration of three 
days they had turned "blind," and were 
soon covered with fungus. This was 
caused by a want of circulation of the 
water over the eggs. 
Noticing that the male sticklebacks 
were beginning to show bright colors, I 
concluded to take my first lesson in fish 
culture. 
Up in the hayloft was a box of window 
glass ; taking a number of panes of glass, 
I formed in each tub a series of compart- 
ments, in the following manner: From 
the centre of each tub the panes of glass 
radiated till they came in close contact 
with the sides of the tub, thus forming a 
series of acute angles ; the bottom edges 
of the glass were crowded down through 
the three inches of sand till they rested 
firmly on the bottom of the tub, and w^ell 
into the apexes of the angles a bunch of 
mermaid weed was ijlanted; this also 
helped to sustain the glass compartments, 
