156 RULES AND REGULATIONS 



4 repasts, and shall be called and entitled the cater- 



* ing committee, and their decision as to snack and 

 ' supper shall be final. 



' Any member willing to send in any stores for 



* the general benefit at his own expence, shall be 



* permitted so to do, and is entitled to be laughed 

 ' at accordingly. 



'All fish by whomsoever caught, are to be con- 

 ' sidered as general property ; and if there are suf- 

 ' firicnt to send any as presents, the choice of the 

 4 fish shall be determined by lot ; always excepting 

 4 Mich as shall be sent to the drawing-room, which 

 4 are to be a tribute from the firm. 



' Any gentleman falsely, shabbily, and treache- 



* i < >usly concealing the number offish he had Vaught, 

 1 and -lily sending off any of the same as a present 



* to ladies or others, shall forfeit on detection, one 

 ' guinea for each fish so purloined from the common 

 ' stock, and be publicly reprimanded at supper for 



* the same. Mrs. Sheridan is not to draw up the 



* form of this reprimand. 



' Any person restless and fidgetty, presuming to 



* insinuate that sea-fishing is preferable to the tame 

 ' and tranquil occupation of this party, and detected 



* in endeavouring to inveigle elsewhere any of the 

 ' liege and dutiful subjects of Izaak Walton, shall 

 ' on conviction, be sentenced to fourteen minutes 

 abstinence from ale, beer, porter, wine, brandy, 

 ' rum, gin, hollands, grog, shrubb, punch, toddy, 



