. American fishes; a popular treatise upon the game and food fishes of North America, with especial reference to habits and methods of capture . whichtumbled over the rocks in the tangled wildwood, and moistened the arbutusand the bunchberries which garnished its banks, will totter forth to thevelvety edge of some peacefully-flowing stream, and having seated himselfon a convenient point in a revolving easy chair, placed there by his care-ful attendant, cast right and left for the semblance of sport long dead. Hosts of liver-fed fish rush to the signal for their early morning meal,and from the
. American fishes; a popular treatise upon the game and food fishes of North America, with especial reference to habits and methods of capture . whichtumbled over the rocks in the tangled wildwood, and moistened the arbutusand the bunchberries which garnished its banks, will totter forth to thevelvety edge of some peacefully-flowing stream, and having seated himselfon a convenient point in a revolving easy chair, placed there by his care-ful attendant, cast right and left for the semblance of sport long dead. Hosts of liver-fed fish rush to the signal for their early morning meal,and from the center of the boil which follows the fall of the handfulsthrown in, my piscator of the ancient days will hook a two-pound Trout,and play him hither and yon, from surface to bottom, without disturbingthe pampered gourmands which are gorging themselves upon the disgustingviands; and when he has leisurely brought him to hand at last, and thegillie has scooped him with his landing-net, he will feel in his capaciouspocket for his last trade dollar, and giving his friend the tip, shuffle backto his house, and lay aside his rod forever. ,. / ^ /. THE SUX-FISH. LEPOMIS GIBBOSUS. THE SUN-FISHES AND THEIR ALLIES. Slowly upward, wavering, gleamingRose the Ugudwash, the Sun-fishSeized the line of Hiawatha,Swung with all his weight upon it.* * * But when Hiawatha saw himSlowly rising through the water. Lifting up his disk refulgent,Loud he shouted in derision Esa ! esa ! shame upon are Ugudwash, the Sun-fish;You are not the fish I wanted ;You are not the King of Fishes. Longfellow, Hiawathas Fishing;. ^ I HE Pumpkin seed and the perch are the first trophies of the boyangler. Many are the memories of truant days dreamed away bypond or brook side, with twine pole and pin-hook, and of the slowhomeward trudge, doubtful what his reception will be at home; polegone, line broken, hooks lost, the only remnant of the mornings glory ascore of lean, sun-dried perches and Sunnies, and, mayhap,
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