148 AMERICAN GAME FISHES. 



lines by the hundred, costing two dollars and fifty cents 

 apiece, and would never use one a second time, fearing that 

 they might have been frayed by the rocks, and thus lose him 

 a heavy fish. This thorough sportsman died a few years ago, 

 leaving some millions to his heirs — he was poor, but other- 

 wise respectable. 



But it is time to stop. Here we are giving away what lit- 

 tle we know about fishing — contrary to the precepts of the 

 late Wynkyn de Worde (A. D. 1491) who, in his introduc- 

 tion to the famous "Treatyse on Fysshynge," holds forth in 

 this manner: 



"And for by cause that the present treatyse sholde not 

 come to ye hondys of eche ydle persone whyche wolde de- 

 sire it yf it were emprynted allone by itself put in a lytyll 

 plaunflet, therefore I have compylyd it in a grete volume 

 of dyverse bokys concernynge to gentyll and noble men to 

 the extent that the forsayd persones whyche sholde have 

 but lytyll mesure in the sayd dysport of fysshynge sholde not 

 by this meane utterly destroye it." 



