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THE COMPLETE ANGLER. 



CHAPTER XVIII. 



Of the Minnow or Penk, of the Loach, and of the Bull-head, or Miller's- 



thumb, 



PiscATOR. There be also three or four other little fish that 1 

 had almost forgot, that are all without scales, and may for excel- 



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lency of meat be compared to any fish of greatest value and 

 largest size. They be usually full of eggs or spawn all the 

 months of summer ; for they breed often, as it is observed mice 

 and many of the smaller four-footed creatures of the earth do ; 

 and as those, so these come quickly to their full growth and per- 

 fection. And it is needful that they breed both often and nume- 

 rously, for tliey be, besides other accidents of ruin, both a prey 



