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again. He has been taken with a fly made of the 

 red feathers of a Parukita, a strange outlandish bird ; 

 and he will rise at a fly not unlike a gnat or a small 

 moth, or, indeed, at most flies that are not too big. 

 He is a fish that lurks close all winter, but is very 

 pleasant and jolly after mid-April, and in May, and 

 in the hot months : he is of a very fine shape, his 

 flesh is white, his teeth, those little ones that he 

 has, are in his throat, yet he has so tender a mouth, 

 that he is oftener lost after an Angler has hooked 

 him than any other fish. Though there be many of 

 these fishes in the delicate river Dove, and in Trent, 

 and some other smaller rivers, as that which runs by 

 Salisbury, yet he is not so general a fish as the Trout, 

 nor to me so good to eat or to angle for. And so I 

 shall take mv leave of him, and now come to some 

 observations of the Salmon, and how to catch him. 



