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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. 1885 Excerpt:...similar ornaments. That obtaiued from the scales of the B. is preferred to that of the roach and dace, but is inferior to that of the white-bait. It readily separates from the scales when they are soaked for a time in water, and settles to the bottom of the vessel. Small glass tubes are then dipped in it, and it is injected into thin hollow glass beads; of the requisite forms and sizes, which are placed in a current of air to dry, and are sometimes further filled with was.--The B. is singularly liable to be infested by a species of tape-worm. The B. is an inhabitant of most of the English rivers which contain roach and dace. It is a very restless, active, little fish, constantly playing about the top of the water, in search of small flies or other food. A small piece of bread cast into the water becomes speedily surrounded by a shoal of them, and it is amusing to watch them darting to and fro at it with increasing pertinacity. It is not only a pretty little fish, but is, withal, delicate eating; and a dish of well cooked B. is scarcely inferior to gudgeons.-They should be cooked in the same manner as sprats, which they rather resemble in shape and appearance. The best way to catch B. is to angle for them with a single gentle and a light quill-float, the bait being about a foot under water; they may be caught with very small flies, and all the more easily, if the hook be pointed, with a gentle. They are so active, that the angler cannot strike too quickly, and where thev abound, they form good preliminary practice for the young fly-fisher. The neighborhood of running drains are very favorite resorts for B„ and the angler can soon determine if there be any about, by casting on the water a handful of bran, when, if there be any, they will immediately ris...