ROBINSON, BEN C. Pond, lake and stream fishing; a book of general advice on fresh-water fishing.

Katherine Pond Ferre (W); 8Sep75; R613411.

The fish were now averaging a foot in length and many a fine meal the boys and the farmer had out of that pond.

In the centre was an immense basin or fish-pond, a hundred and thirty feet in length by thirty in breadth, stocked with gold-fish and bordered by hedges of roses.

[Illustration] Rob Jack-son's dog jumped off the lit-tle bridge in-to the mill pond to fetch a stick that Hal Jones threw for him.

In the afternoon we reached Lake Mary, a long, ugly, muddy pond in a valley between pine-slopes.

Five miles through the woods, gradually descending, led us into an open plain where there was a grass-bordered pond full of ducks.

"The pond road is a little the nearest, isn't it?"

After riding a short distance, they turned down by a road which led to the pond, which was now covered with so thick and solid a sheet of ice, that it was safe travelling upon it, and it was accordingly intersected with roads in every direction.

The road led them over, very nearly, the same part of the pond that Jonas had navigated in his boat, when he fitted a sail to it,though now the appearances were so different all around, that one would hardly have supposed the scene to have been the same.

" "Well," replied Jonas, "I see a load of hay coming along on the pond before us.

" A short time after this, Jonas turned up off from the pond, and soon reached home.

" The road by which the boys were advancing, led along the bank of the brook, until it reached nearly to the shore of the pond, and then it turned off, and went towards the house, at a little distance from the shore.

When they reached this part of the road, the storm, which here swept down across the pond, beat upon them with unusual fury.

"It is somebody off upon the pond," said Jonas.

"Is the pond out that way?" asked Josey.

They descended gradually a short distance across the field, and then they came to the shore of the pond.

" Jonas then drove down upon the pond, guiding his oxen in the direction of the cry.

"I don't know; very probably some travellers lost upon the pond.

But his progress was now interrupted by hearing another loud call behind him, back upon the pond.

In a few minutes, the farmer and Amos came up, and they were exceedingly surprised when they saw Jonas with his oxen, drawing a sleigh, with a woman in it, off the pond, instead of a sled load of rafters from the woods.

"Jonas," said he with astonishment, "how came you here?" "I came to help Isaiah get off the pond," said Jonas.

"He followed the road along some time, and then he wanted to turn off suddenly towards the pond.

When he came to the shore of the pond, we found your rafter laid there, and that made us think you must have gone upon the ice, but we couldn't imagine what for.

The next morning, when Jonas got up, he found that it was clearing away; and when, after breakfast, he looked out upon the pond, to see if he could see any thing of his sled, he observed, away out half a mile from shore, two short rows of stakes, sticking up in the snow, not far from on island.