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in a swift stream *. And the Loaeh that I told you 

 of, will do the like : no bait is more tempting, pro- 

 vided the Loach be not too big. 



And now, scholar ! with the help of this fine morning, 

 and your patient attention, I have said all that my 

 present memory will afford me, concerning most of 

 the several fish that are usually fished for in fresh 

 waters. 



Ven. But, master ! you have by your former ci- 

 vility made me hope, that you will make good 

 your promise, and say something of the several 

 rivers that be of most note in this nation ; and also 

 of fish-ponds, and the ordering of them : and do 

 it, I pray, good master ! for I love any discourse 

 of rivers, and fish and fishing ; the time spent in 

 such discourse passes away very pleasantly. 



* The Minnow, if used in this manner, is so tempting a bait, that few 

 fish are able to resist it. The present Earl of ******** told me, that, in 

 the month of June last, at Kimpton Hoo, near Wellwyn, in Hertfordshire, 

 he caught (with a Minnow) a Rud, a fish described in page 291, which 

 inasmuch as the Rud, is not reckoned, nor does the situation of his teeth, 

 which are in his throat, bespeak him to be a fish of prey is a fact more 

 extraordinary than that related, by Sir George Hastings, in Chap. IV. of a 

 Fordldge Trout, (of which kind of fish none had ever been known to be 

 taken with an angle,) which he caught, and supposed it bit for wanton- 

 n.ess. 



