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ber of shorter lines, with several baited hooks 
on each. As this poor man had no boat, 
how do you think he contrived to send his 
apparatus out into the deep water? He had 
fastened one end of his line to a small raft of 
canes lashed together, on which he had 
erected a mast and sail, and the wind blow¬ 
ing from the shore, his hooks were thus car¬ 
ried out as far as the length of his line would 
allow, while he remained on the bank, and 
occasionally drew in his apparatus to re¬ 
place his baits, and to see what success he 
had met with. 
We lately paid a visit to the Lancasterian 
school in Valetta. The boy’s school-room 
may be about a hundred feet long, and 
thirty or forty wide, and the present number 
of scholars is two hundred and forty-six, of 
whom two hundred and ten were present. 
They are received at the age of six, and are 
