HOW TO FISH FOR, AND TO DRESS 



their sweetness, you will find the Chub being dressed in the 

 blood and quickly, to be such meat as will recompense your 

 labour, and disabuse your opinion. 



Or you may dress the Chavender or Chub thus : 



When you have scaled him, and cut off his tail and fins, 

 and washed him very clean, then chine or slit him through the 

 middle, as a salt fish is usually cut ; then give him three or 

 four cuts or scotches on the back with your knife, and broil 

 him on charcoal, or wood-coal that are free from smoke, and 

 all the time he is a-broiling baste him with the best sweet 

 butter, and good store of salt mixed with it ; and to this add 

 a little thyme cut exceeding small, or bruised into the butter. 

 The Cheven thus dressed hath the watery taste taken away, 

 for which so many except against him. Thus was the Cheven 

 dressed that you now liked so well, and commended so much. 

 But note again, that if this Chub that you ate of, had been kept 

 till to-morrow, he had not been worth a rush. And remember 

 that his throat be washed very clean, I say very clean, and 

 his body not washed after he is gutted, as indeed no fish 

 should be. 



Well Scholar, you see what pains I have taken to recover 

 the lost credit of the poor despised Chub. And now I will give 

 you some rules how to catch him ; and I am glad to enter you 

 into the Art of Fishing by catching a Chub, for there is no fish 

 better to enter a young Angler, he is so easily caught, but then 

 it must be this particular way. 



Go to the same hole in which I caught my Chub, where 

 in most hot days you will find a dozen or twenty Chevens float- 

 ing near the top of the water, get two or three grashoppers 

 as you go over the meadow, and get secretly behind the tree, 

 and stand as free from motion as is possible ; then put a gras- 

 hopper on your hook, and let your hook hang a quarter of a 

 yard short of the water, to which end you must rest your rod 

 on some bough of the tree, but it is likely the Chubs will sink 

 down towards the bottom of the water at the first shadow of 

 your rod, for a Chub is the fearfullest of fishes, and will do so 

 if but a bird flies over him, and makes the least shadow on the 

 water : but they will presently rise up to the top again, and 

 there lie soaring till some shadow affrights them again : I say 

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