2 HINTS ON ANGLING. 



very easy solution. The illustrious gastronome who can 

 placidly pack away six pounds * of fat flesh messed up 

 into that apoplectic compound, called turtle soup, pre- 

 vious to a more elaborate and Warner-like attack on the 

 venison and other important and insinuating vivers, is 

 not a likely subject to be frightened from his piggish pro- 

 priety by the lucubrations of a silly old foreign physician, 

 who never dined at a city feast, and could not explain 

 the recondite harmonies which subsist between the velvet 

 calipash and the verdant calipee. Fish will, indeed, 

 continue to be devoured in spite of medicinal prognostics, 

 and sanatory suggestions; and as it is to be presumed, 

 they must first be caught before they can be eaten, the 

 art of catching them will still attract the attention of, and 

 exercise an influence over, a very large portion of 

 mankind. 



There are few men who are not fond of fishing in some 

 shape or other. Some spend the best years of life in 

 fishing for position and preferment; not unfrequently in 

 disturbed and dirty waters, belying their own consciences, 

 and trampling on the rights and hopes of their fellow- 

 men. Some fish for money, pelf, dross; indifferent as to 

 the manner how, unscrupulous as to the means employed; 

 most commonly in other people's pockets, regardless alike 

 of widows' tears and orphans' wrongs. Others again, with 

 sleek exterior and elongated visage and pious phrase, 

 disguise the sharp hooks of their sensuality and worldliness, 

 under insinuating baits, gathered amidst the glories of 

 futurity and anointed with the unguents of eternity, to 

 beguile the feeble and unwary, and to extract from other 



* See Kitchener's Cook's Oracle, " small receipt for turtle 

 soup" ; or Cobbett's Register for August, 1808. 



