I go Four-ill' Hand in Britain. 



member that Moses (Levit. ii: 9; Deut. 14; 9) ap. 

 pointed fish to be the chief diet for the best common- 

 wealth that ever yet was ; and it is observable not only 

 that there are fish, as namely the whale, three times as 

 big as the mighty elephant that is so fierce in battle, 

 but that the mightiest feasts have been of fish." 



Is not that capital? It calls to mind Josh Billings* 

 answer to his correspondent who wrote saying that he 

 had heard many times that a fish diet was most favor- 

 able for increase of brain power, but he had never been 

 able to find out the best kind of fish for the purpose. 

 Could he inform him? "In your case," replied Josh, 

 " try a whale or two." 



Here is Izaak's argument for the lawfulness of fish- 

 ing: 



"And for the lawfulness of fishing it may very well 

 be maintained by our Saviour's bidding St. Peter cast 

 his hook into the water and catch a fish for money to 

 pay tribute to Caesar. And it is observable that it was 

 our Saviour's will that four fishermen should have a 

 priority of nomination in the catalogue of his twelve 

 disciples (Matt. 10: 2, 4, 13), as namely: St. Peter, St. 

 Andrew, St. James, and St. John, and then the rest in 

 their order. And it is yet more observable that when 

 our blessed Saviour went up into the mount when he 

 left the rest of his disciples and chose only three to 

 bear him company at his transfiguration, that those 

 three were all fishermen ; and it is to be believed that 



