REMARKS ON ANGLING. 



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December. — Chub, Roach, Jack, and Pike, continue 

 to afford the Angler a few hours' amusement and 

 profit, if a favourable opportunity offers for him to 

 exercise his skill ; but that seldom occurs this month, 

 because the waters are generally either flooded, too thick^ 

 or frozen up. Barbel, Carp, and Gudgeons, are now re- 

 tired to deep holes, or under sheltering banks, for 

 warmth, &c. which are their usual Winter quarters j the 

 Eels are, also, now buried in numbers together, in deep 

 sandy holes, or in mud, and there remain, in a torpid 

 state, till Spring. 



The fields their verdure now resign, » 



The bleating flocks and lowing kine 



Give o'er their former play ; 

 The feather'd tribe forget the notes. 

 Which joyful strain'd their vocal tJiroats 



To chaunt the matin lav. 



