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can bo avoided by eating only the sides, wliicli 

 are very good indeed. Perch, trout, and greyling 

 there can be no dispute about ; and pike the same, 

 when you know how to dress them. 



We then come to an excellent fish, of which 

 tliere are millions in some rivers — the lamperne. 

 They abound in the Avon, near Christchurch, and 

 they are found in the sister river, the Stour ; but 

 in that locality these fish, which are prized by us 

 in Gloucestershire and Worcestershire, on the banks 

 of the Severn, as the greatest delicacy when 

 stewed, all but its salmon and shad, are, when 

 caught in Hampshire, thrown away. In Hampshire 

 they are vulgarly called the nine-eyed eel, and 

 people will not eat them. In London, Avhen I 

 rented a fishery on the Avon, at Winkton, I could 

 get no sale for them, so I caught large quantities, 

 and what I did not use at table I turned into manure 

 for the garden and the vines. The lamprey — 

 larger and much more rare than the lamperne — is 

 a most wholesome and delicious fish, but if the 

 great baby, the ^' Constitution," has no stomach 

 for them, what are his nurses to do ? 



I see that we are invited, through the public 

 press, to visit ''the steam-cultivated farms of 



