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THE FOURTH DAY. 

 CHAPTER V.- (Continued.') 



PiSC. Good-morrow, good hostess; I see my brother Peter 

 is still in bed : come, give my scholar and me a morning drink, 

 and a bit of meat to breakfast ; and be sure to get a good dish 

 of meat or two against supper, for we shall come home as 

 hungry as hawks. Come, scholar, let's be going. 



VEN. Well now, good master, as we walk towards the river 

 give me direction, according to your promise, how I shall fish 

 for a trout. 



PiSC. My honest scholar, I will take this very convenient 

 opportunity to do it. 



The trout is usually caught with a worm or a minnow, which 

 some call a penk, or with a fly, viz., either a natural or an 

 artificial fly: concerning which three I will give you some 

 observations and directions. 



And, first, for worms: of these there be very many sorts: 

 some breed only in the earth, as the earth-worm; others of or 

 amongst plants, as the dung- worm ; and others breed either out 

 of excrements, or in the bodies of living creatures, as in the 

 horns of sheep or deer; or some of dead flesh, as the maggot 

 or gentle, and others. 



Now these be most of them particularly good for particular 

 fishes : but for the trout, the dew-worm, which some also call 

 the lob- worm, and the brandling are the chief ; and especially 

 the first for a great trout, and the latter for a less. There be 

 also of lob-worms some called squirrel-tails, a worm that has a 



