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THE SUN-FI8H. 
with the perch. They vary in size, shape, and color, in dif- 
ferent parts of the country, and are taken readily with perch 
tackle. Their general size is from three to eight inches in 
length, except a species found in the Ohio, Kentucky, aud 
other western rivers, where they are frequently taken twelve 
inches long. 
Angling for sun-fish, when found in ponds, with small 
perch, is a favorite amusement of lady Anglers, who often 
make the best part of pic-nic fishing parties, and, as Walton 
Bays, “ angle for men aud fish at fish, at the same time.” De- 
termined old bachelors should be as wary in making up such 
parties, as they would be in taking a trout, or they will be 
caught in their own net ; and when beguilod by one of the 
fair sex, he might break out into a stream of rhyme like the 
following, by Dr. Donne : 
“ £01110 livo with mo, and be my love, 
Aud we will some new pleasures prove, 
Of goldon sands and chrystnl brooks, 
With silken lines and silver hooks. 
* Let coarse, bold hands, from slimy nest, 
The bedded fish in banks outwrost; 
Let curious traitors sloavo silk flies, 
To witch poor wandering fishes’ eyes : 
“ For thoe, thou noed’st no such decoit, 
For thou thyself art thine own buit ; 
That fish that is not cutch’d thoroby, 
Is wisor far, alas, than I.” 
