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England. A fish that makes more sport in the 

 pie than the pool ; but of no great acquaint- 

 ance nor familiarity with anglers ; and that is 

 the reason he is so little discours'd, as if there 

 were no such thing in being : but assure your 

 self there is, and the plenty of such in the ri- 

 ver Cam, and some other rivers, as Thames and 

 Trent, that I dare to assert and divulge them 

 numerous : But as torpid deeps do not always 

 delight him, so transparent streams do not al- 

 together transport him ; nor admires he the 

 torrents of rapid rivers : And because no con- 

 stant housekeeper, we have considered him as 

 unconstant to diet. It's true, I have no com- 

 mission to assign him a traveller, and yet he is 

 seldom or rarely at home. At home did I say ? 

 surely I mistook my self, because he has no 

 home to go to, who lives like an intruder, insi- 

 nuating himself into all sorts of company, and 

 puts a foot under every ones table : for we find 

 him a fish altogether in suspicion ; therefore 

 seldom admitted among the scaly society ; who 

 prefers sand and gravel-beds infinitely before 

 muddy recrements ; and loves to be casting and 

 sucking stones, because it's a great part of his 

 life and maintenance; except otherwhiles he 

 stumbles upon offil or garbage, which if he do, 

 he feasts himself like a country-farmer ; when at 

 other times, like a shotten herring, he is forced 



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