tf* THE ANGLER'S GUIDE. 



You can spin this Minnow to the greatest 

 advantage from a bridge, or some other emi- 

 nence : the top of your* rod should be some- 

 what lowered, and the bait kept in the mid- 

 dle of the stream or current. At the tail of a 

 mill, whilst the wheel is turning round, is a 

 likely place for Trout, both early and late ; 

 there drop in your bait close to the apron of 

 the mill, and let it swim down some distance, 

 and let it play awhile, if any Trout are on the 

 feed, be assured they will take you. 



home, she changed her name, and, some time after, got hired 

 as a cook-maid in the same merchant's house. Having a 

 Trout to dress for dinner, on a certain day, to her infinite sur- 

 prise and delight, she found this identical diamond ring in 

 the fish's belly, and, in consequence, seized this opportunity 

 of making herself known to her master : the result was, that 

 they were soon afterwards happily married. To commem- 

 orate this singular circumstance, there is a stone figure or mo- 

 nument of a fish, with a ring in its mouth, an epitaph, and 

 some verses, on the east end of Stepney church, which con- 

 tinues to this day to attract the curiosity and wonder of all 

 visitors to contemplate it. Such is the story of the Fish and 

 the Ring. 



