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the writer is actuated, when having explained how 

 to catch the fish, he shows how to preserve them, 

 are certainly praiseworthy, and it would be a good 

 thing if more anglers at the present time were 

 influenced by like motives to contribute to the re- 

 stocking funds connected with the rivers in which 

 they are accustomed to angle. 



The second part of the book begins as follows : 



Here is how to save and preserve fish. 



For so much as I have afore shewed certaine 

 waies and practices how to take fish in rivers, pooles, 

 and standing waters. I will here declare certaine 

 waies how for to maintaine fish, and the chiefest waies 

 to save and preserve them in rivers, pooles and 

 standing waters, against such devourers and raverers 

 as hath and will destroy them, as Herne, the Dob- 

 chicke, the Coote, the Cormorant, the Sea -pie, the 

 Kings fisher and such like : as also the Otter, who is 

 a common destroier of pondes and standing waters, 

 . . . which shall be declared in their places. 



The " Hearne," which is " fearfulle and subtill," is to 

 be taken by a hook, baited with a small fish, and 

 placed in water about half a foot deep. 



The Otter or " water wolfe " is to be caught " in 

 a wele made and devised for the nonce." A woodcut 

 of the otter weel is given ; it resembles a large eel- 

 basket, differing only in size from the eel weels or 

 baskets in use at the present day. 



The " Water-ratte " is hard to take, but he may 

 be caught in a small otter weel or in a more compli- 

 cated form of trap fitted with a latch and iron spikes, 



