Show UNIQUE FISHING DONE IN JAPAN black cormora cormorants ants there take the place of rod and line at the farmhouse commodious and hospitable likewise clean and charm ing after the fashion of japan we send for the boy who brings our fish ing tackle they came waddling into the yard the three birds with which we are to do our fishing black cormorants they are each with a white spot be hind its eye and a hoarse voice come of standing in the water with which it says y leagh bagh whenever a stranger makes a friendly overture the cor answer to the name of ou on which in japanese is something like the only word the cormorants can say the boy puts them in a box together and we set off across the drifted grav el to the arrived at the stream the boy takes the three cor out of the box and adjusts their fishing harness this consists of a tight ring about the bottom of the neck of a loop under each wing and a directing line two other boys take a low net they drag it down the stream driving the little fishes and all the rest before it the boy with the cormorants goes in advance the three birds are eager as pointer dogs and apparently full of perfect enjoyment to the right and left they plunge with lightning strokes each dip bringing up a ahja ing fish when the bird s neck Is full of fishes down to the level of the shoulders the boy draws dras him in grabs him by the leg and shakes him over a basket until all the fishes have flopped out outing i |