THE THIRD DAY continued 



Hoiv to fish for, and to dress, the Chavender 

 or Chub 



CHAPTER III 



PISCATOR AND VENATOR 



PlSCATOR. The Chub, though he eat well, thus 

 dressed, yet as he is usually dressed, he does not. 

 He is objected against, not only for being full of 

 small forked bones, dispersed through all his body, 

 but that he eats waterish, and that the flesh of him 

 is not firm, but short and tasteless. The French 

 esteem him so mean, as to call him Un Villain ; 

 nevertheless he may be so dressed as to make him 

 very good meat ; as, namely, if he be a large Chub 

 then dress him thus : 



First, scale him, and then wash him clean, and 

 then take out his guts ; and to that end make the 

 hole as little, and near to his gills, as you may con- 

 veniently, and especially make clean his throat from 

 the grass and weeds that are usually in it; for if 

 that be not very clean, it will make him to taste 

 very sour. Having so done, put some sweet herbs 

 into his belly ; and then tie him with two or three 

 splinters to a spit, and roast him, basted often with 

 vinegar, or rather verjuice and butter, with good 

 store of salt mixed with it. 

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