The Compleat ^Angler 



kind, and differ as we know a herring and a pilchard do, which, I 

 think, are as different as the rivers in which they breed, and must by 

 me be left to the disquisitions of men of more leisure, and of greater 

 abilities, than I profess myself to have. 



And lastly, I am to borrow so much of your promised patience as 

 to tell you that the trout or salmon, being in season, have, at their 

 first taking out of the water (which continues during life) their bodies 

 adorned, the one with such red spots, and the other with such black 

 or blackish spots, as give them such an addition of natural beauty, 

 as I think was never given to any woman by the artificial paint or 

 patches in which they so much pride themselves in this age. And 

 so I shall leave them both, and proceed to some observations on 

 pike. 



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