Fishing Gossip; Or, Stray Leaves From the Note-Books of Several Anglers
Fishing Gossip; Or, Stray Leaves From the Note-Books of Several Anglers
H Henry Cholmondeley Pennell
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Eesponsive to the dignity and fostering impulse of local circumstance, he becomes the type, the model representative, of his " order. " In this state of perfect equality with his more highly-prized and organised companions of the lake, he has left popular notions of the economy of eel life far behind. As he flashes in brightness and power through the crystal element, the common observer would scarcely recognise re- lationship or similitude to the semi-amphibious snigs of the manor ponds. Like t...hem, however, he hiber- nates, for in his highest condition he is still true to the instincts of the race. But what a difference be- tween the slimy, sulphuretted ooze in which they hide their diminished heads, and the pure silt and vegetable fibre beds in which their " silver " relative takes up his winter's quarters, with pearly shells for his pillow, and the white surge of the lake breaking in music over his head ! Often has our tiny bark paused over these winter colonies in the creeks of the lake to admire the spiracles of the semi-fluid mass through which he breathed the purest of water.
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