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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1863 Excerpt: ...and we will buy some. There are two sorts of lugworm that they find in the sand, one of which is much more prized by the fishermen than the other. The one they value I have not remarked on our coasts, though it may be there; it is larger than the common lug, and has a large lump in the middle. When they dig them up, the fisherman tears off the tail and squeezes the inside out. The worm then looks like a narrow strip of raw beef; the fishermen tell me that the brills and bass take this bait, but that only flounders and plaice take the common lugworm. We will look at them and you will see how they find and distinguish the two sorts; but, first of all, let us watch them catching the sand-eels. I daresay you have often seen them caught on our coast; there, as you must know, they are taken by drawing a blunt sickle through the sand at the edge of the sea; here, at night, these girls catch them also much in that way, only they use a two-pronged fork instead of a sickle. In the day-time, however, they catch them by digging circular trenches in the wettest parts of the strand, as you will see." " We have forgotten the crab-hunters," said Hope. " I should like to have seen more of their way of working. I wish to see all the different modes of fishing, and all the varieties of fish they catch." " Well, you have a good deal yet before you, but you need not be afraid of not seeing both the hand-nets and crab-hunters at work; they will be oat here soon, for they are sure to come here as soon as they have searched all the crevices where we left them. and these rocks before us are more productive, as they are farther out to sea, and the crevices are more numerous. If you look behind, you will see the girls are nearly at the end of the rock wh...


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  • ISBN-13: 9781151182159
  • Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Publisher Imprint: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 72
  • Spine Width: 4 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 115118215X
  • Publisher Date: 01 May 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 145 gr

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