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People watch'd by a good fire Night and 

 Day, and wanted not the Blessing of Roast 

 Beef and Napy Ale, which Mr. Hyde con- 

 stantly supply'd them with: It's impossible 

 to tell the just Number of Fish we took, for 

 he gave away abundance of every sort to all 

 those he would lend a helping hand, as well 

 Labourers as Friendly Spectators, whose 

 Curiosity brought them to Injoy the delight 

 that Lovely Spectacle invited them to. 



Among the fine Carps he gave me, with 

 some Silver Eeles, he was pleased to present 

 me with one Pearch of thirteen Inches long 

 and nine Inches over, I weigh'd it when I 

 came home, and it weigh'd one Pound ten 

 Ounces, and had an other Fish in his Belly, 

 but it was nothing in Comparison to those 

 he carried to Simdridge place, when we 

 had sent away our choice Fish we stock'd 

 Winckhurst Pond again, and put in two 

 thousand Carps from nine Inches to four- 

 teen in length, not reckoning the small 

 Pearch and Tench, which might be by guess 

 as many more, which in three hours time 

 were all bravely afloat to their Content- 

 ment, by the stream that runs into the 

 Pond. 



I can justly sum up of that days Action, 

 that we took two Thousand Seven Hundred 

 and Fifty Carps. 



Not reckoning those were given away, 

 nor the Tench, nor Pearch, nor Silver 



Eeles; 



