THE CHAVENDER, OR CHUB 



when they lie upon the top of the water, look out the best 

 Chub, which you, setting yourself in a fit place, may very easily 

 see, and move your rod as softly as a snail moves, to that Chub 

 you intend to catch ; let your bait fall gently upon the water 

 three or four inches before him, and he will infallibly take the 

 bait, and you will be as sure to catch him ; for he is one of the 

 leather-mouthed fishes, of which a hook does scarcely ever lose 

 its hold ; and therefore give him play enough before you offer 

 to take him out of the water. Go your way presently, take my 

 rod, and do as I bid you, and I will sit down and mend my 

 tackling till you return back. 



VEN. Truly, my loving Master, you have offered me as 

 fair as I could wish. I '11 go and observe your directions. 



Look you, Master, what I have done ! that which joys my 

 heart, caught just such another Chub as your's was. 



Pise. Marry, and I am glad of it : I am like to have a 

 towardly Scholar of you. I now see, that with advice and 

 practice, you will make an Angler in a short time. Have but 

 a love to it, and I '11 warrant you. 



VEN. But Master, what if I could not have found a gras- 

 hopper ? 



Pise. Then I may tell you, that a black snail, with his 

 belly slit, to shew his white ; or a piece of soft cheese, will 

 usually do as well : nay, sometimes a worm, or any kind of fly, 

 as the Ant-fly, the Flesh-fly, or Wall-fly, or the Dor or Beetle, 

 which you may find under cow-dung, or a Bob, which you will 

 find in the same place, and in time will be a Beetle ; it is a 

 short white worm, like to and bigger than a Gentle, or a Cod- 

 worm, or a Case-worm, any of these will do very well to fish 

 in such a manner. And after this manner you may catch a 

 Trout in a hot evening : when as you walk by a brook, and 

 shall see or hear him leap at flies, then if you get a grashopper, 

 put it on your hook, with your line about two yards long, 

 standing behind a bush or tree where his hole is, and make 

 your bait stir up and down on the top of the water: you may 

 if you stand close, be sure of a bite, but not sure to catch him, 

 for he is not a leather-mouthed fish : and after this manner you 

 may fish for him with almost any kind of live fly, but especially 

 with a Grashopper. 



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