( for they cannot ftand long on their heads in the 

 MudJ then lift up the Crown of your Net bolt up- 

 right with a long Staff, that fo the fiih may play into 

 the Tuck of the Net. 



Here note, that fhould you draw up your Net fud- 

 denly after you have calt it in, it is an hundred pound 

 to a penny whether you fhould take one Carp or Tench ^ 

 but letting the Net lie,the Mud will choak them if they 

 remove not out of it. 



Now here I cannot omit a very pleafant flory ia 

 my opinion : A Gentleman having fpecial Carps in 

 his pond, but not knowing how to take one of them, 

 unlefs it were by chance with Hook and Line •, I dc- 

 lired him that we might taftc of his Carps^ and mo- 

 deltly told him, a brace of them would ferve our 

 turns: He anfwered, I might freely havfc them, if 

 I knew how to catch them. Hereupon I prepared 

 fom^ngredients,and having baited a convenietit place 

 very cariy in the Morning,at the dusk of thq Evening 

 •we came with a Cafting-net,and at the firft throw co- 

 vered a great quantity of fi(h,as hereafter will appear ; 

 but not one feem'd to Ilir a jot under the Net, being 

 all ftruck into the Mud. Hereupon the Gentleman 

 fell a laughing heartily, faying, 5/>, // Jhadno other _ 

 provifon to trufi to but what fijl) youjhall catch this nighty 

 JbcUeve I p^allgofH^ferlc^ to Bed. Hearing him fay 

 fo, I defired that he would have a little patience, for 

 the fifli were afleep, and I was as yet loath to dilturb 

 them i but half an hour hence, if he would ftay fo 

 long, I fhould make bold to awake them with a wit- 

 ncfs : So the Gentleman having fmoakeda pipe of 

 Tobacco a Carp began to play in the Net ^ and after 

 this in a very little time a great many more began ta 

 dance and skip: whereupon 1 lifted uptheCrown^ 

 that they might play in the Tuck \ and when I thought 

 they were all got out of the Mud I began to draw, 



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