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prepared, which is more easily accounted for, from its 

 smell, than any of the preceding, since they are quite 

 artificial, while this is a natural and much relished 

 article of food. The original account, if I mistake not, 

 is given by Barker, in his curious " Art of Angling," 

 published in 1651, who addressing his noble patron, 

 Edward Lord Montague, says, " I have found an ex- 

 perience of late which you may angle with, and take 

 great store of fish. First, it is the best bait for a trout 

 that I have seen in all my time ; and will take great 

 store, and not fail if they be there. Secondly, it is a 

 special bait for dace or dare, good for chubb, or bottlin, 

 or grayling. The bait is the roe of a salmon or trout : 

 if it be a large trout that the spawns be any thing great 

 you must angle for the trout with this bait as you 

 angle with the brandling, taking a pair of scissors, and 

 cut so much as a large hazel nut and bait your hook, 

 so fall to your sport ; there is no doubt of pleasure : 

 if I had but known it twenty years ago, I would have 

 gained a hundred pounds only with -that bait. I am 

 bound in duty to divulge it to your honour, and not to 

 carry it to my grave along with me. I do desire that 

 men of quality should have it, that delight in that 

 pleasure. The greedy angler will murmur at me, but 

 for that I care not. For the angling of the scale-fish, 

 they must angle either with cork or quill, plumming 

 their ground, with feeding with the same bait, taking 

 them asunder, that they may spread abroad, that the 

 fish may feed and come to your place ; there is no 

 doubt of pleasure, angling with fine tackles or single 

 hair lines at least five or six lengths long, a small hook, 



