! It is made by driving- piles from the
| shore out into the sea about half a
| mile, to which is attached a straight
( net. wide enough to reach from the
; top of the piles to the bottom, and at
; the ocean end a round trap is made
: something the shape of a button hook;
j at the bottom of this trap is another
• huge net. Every morning, after clos-
I mg the mouth of this net, the one
| lying on the bottom is raised by means
. of pulleys, until the fish are brought
! to the surface, when they are taken
j out with scoop nets. From two thou
j sand to four thousand pounds are
I caught in this manner daily, with
1 them an occasional shark. The hotel
folks meet at the trap every morning
and make their selections for twenty
cents apiece.
The gambling spirit is universal.
| and the ingenuity shown in making
; occasion for a bet is amusing. The
1 Spanish races ia South America fre
quently vary the monotony of their
midday siesta by playing • fly.'’ In
this game a pool is made, and each
player furnishes himself with a piece
of loaf-sugar, which he places in front
of him. Leisurely whiffing their ci
garettes. the players keep a watchful
eye upon the sugar and the possessor
of the piece on which a fly first alights
takes the pool. The newest gambling
institution is at Bombay—“rain gamb
ling." Thvre are certain shops near
the Mombadevi Chowky. where rain
gambling goes on regulaaly during
tha monsoon. This species of dissipa
tion consists in betting that rain will
or will not fall within a certain lime,
and much money changes hands.
