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as food, and are there punningly called Spitalfields weavers. 

 In France they are valued as food, for their flesh remains 

 without taint for a considerable time after they have been 

 killed. 



The Little Weever, or sting-fish (Trachinus viperd), is 

 more common than the greater weever. They are not to be 

 confounded with the father lasher or Greenland bull-head 

 (Cottus scorpius), which is also called ' sting-fish,' in addition 

 to the names of sea scorpion and three-spined cottus, and has 

 spines which can inflict nasty wounds. 



This brings to an end all that the space at my disposal will 

 allow me to write of British sea fish, and the more sportsman- 

 like methods of capturing them. I am inclined to apologise 

 for sundry repetitions, but most of these seemed desirable 

 in the interests of lucidity. So far as was possible, I have 

 followed a careful arrangement of matter, but the seeker after 

 information concerning this delightful branch of fishing will 

 be well advised to diligently use the index. 



There only remains for me the expression of a cordial wish 

 that my readers' lines may be cast in pleasant places, that my 

 shortcomings will be regarded with lenient eyes in a book which 

 is in many respects a new departure, and that the information 

 and advice given herein will lead to increased takes of fish and 

 greater enjoyment in their capture than was possible with the 

 clumsy methods of bygone days. Having said this, I make 

 way joyfully for my brother contributors, and so end not with 

 ' Finis,' but Farewell. 



