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so much. But note again, that if this Chub that 

 you ate of, had been kept till to-morrow, he had not 

 been worth a rush. And remember that his throat 

 be washed very clean, I say very clean, and his 

 body not washed after he is gutted, as indeed no 

 fish should be. 



Well Scholar, you see what pains I have taken 

 to recover the lost credit of the poor despised Chub. 

 And now I will give you some rules how to catch 

 him : and I am glad to enter you into the art of 

 Fishing by catching a Chub, for there is no fish bet- 

 ter to enter a young Angler, he is so easily caught ; 

 but then it must be this particular way. 



Go to the same hole in which I caught my Chub, 

 where in most hot days you will find a dozen or 

 twenty Chevens floating near the top of the water. 

 Get two or three grashoppers as you go over the 

 meadow ; and get secretly behind the tree, and stand 

 as free from motion as is possible. Then put a gras- 

 hopper on your hook, and let your hook hang a 

 quarter of a yard short of the water, to which end 

 you must rest your rod on some bough of the tree. 

 But it is likely the Chubs will sink down towards 

 the bottom of the water at the first shadow of your 

 rod, for a Chub is the fearfullest of fishes, and will 

 do so if but a bird flies over him, and makes the 

 least shadow on the water ; but they will presently 

 rise up to the top again, and there lie soaring till 

 some shadow affrights them again. I say when they 

 lie upon the top of the water, look out the best 



