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but only to make sport for boys and women anglers, and to feed 

 other fish, that be fish of prey, as trouts in particular, who will 

 bite at him as at a penk, and better, if your hook be rightly 

 baited with him ; for he may be so baited, as his tail, turning 

 like the sail of a wind-mill, will make him turn more quick than 

 any penk or minnow can. For note, that the nimble turning of 

 that or the minnow is the perfection of minnow-fishing. To 

 which end, if you put your hook into his mouth, and out at his 

 tail, and then having first tied him with white thread a little 

 above his tail, and placed him after such a manner on your hook 

 as he is like to turn, then sew up his mouth to your line, and he 

 is like to turn quick, and tempt any trout ; but if he do not turn 

 quick, then turn his tail a little more or less towards the inner 

 part, or towards the side of the hook ; or put the minnow or stickle- 

 bag a little more crooked or more straight on your hook, until it 

 will turn both true and fast ; and then doubt not but to tempt any 

 great trout that lies in a swift stream. And the loach, that I told 

 you of, will do the like : no bait is more tempting, provided the 

 loach be not too big. 



And now, Scholar, with the help of this fine morning, and youi 

 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 civility 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 awav very pleasantly. 



