CHAPTER III. 



Leonard Mascall's Booke of Fishing with ' Hooke 

 and Line, 1590 Mascall the Pioneer of Fish 

 Culture in England Some Extracts from His 

 Work Directions for Taking Herons, Otters, 

 Sea-Pies, etc. How to Preserve Fish Spawn 

 The Parson of Guiles Crayfish Culture 

 A Crayfish War Curious Statement about 

 the Kingfisher " A Pretie Way to Take a 

 Pye." 



" Samias. Worse and worse, but how wilt 

 thou live ? 



" Epiton, By angling ; O 'tis a stately occu- 

 pation to stand foure houres in a colde morning, 

 and to have his nose bitten with frost before his 

 baite be mumbled with a fish/' From Endimion, 

 by J. Lilly, 1591. 



(ANY works on sport of a general 

 character have been published in 

 English, and, when angling has 

 been included, we generally find 

 that the author or compiler of the work 

 has been content to take one of the exist- 

 ing books on the subject of angling, and 

 make up his section on fishing from that, 



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