The draughting is carried on at the last quarter of the ebb, and during the first of the flood; five or six boats, with as many men in each, are necessary. When the salmon are seen, the nearest boat starts off, leaving a man on shore, with a rope attached to one extremity of the net, which is rapidly thrown over, as the boat makes an extensive circle round the place where the fish are supposed to lie. Returning to the shore, the curve of the net is gradually decreased. Stones are flung in at each extremity, to prevent the salmon from escaping; the net reaches the bank, the semicircle is complete, and all within effectually secured. The fish are then carefully landed, and at a single draught five hundred salmon have been taken. This is, however, an event of rare occurrence, and unless the net were powerfully strong, and the fishers skilful, a fracture, and consequently a general escape, would be inevitable. * * * * * It is extraordinary how much the flavour and quality of the salmon depends on circumstances apparently of trifling moment. A single day in the river will injure, and a flood spoil their condition; and a difference between a fish taken in the nets, and one killed with a rod, will be easily perceptible.—_Wild Sports._ DRAYHORSE, _s._ A horse which draws a dray. DREDGE, _s._ A kind of net; the iron and bag net with which oysters, scallops, &c., are lifted. DREDGE, _v._ To gather with a dredge. DREDGER, _s._ One who fishes with a dredge. DRENCH, _v._ To saturate with drink or moisture; to physic by violence. Though an inconvenient method of giving medicine to horses, it is preferable, on some occasions, on account of the medicine acting in much _less_ time than in a solid form. In flatulent colic, or gripes, where the symptoms are alarming, a proper drench will relieve the animal, while a ball would be useless.