52 THE COMPLETE ANGLER. 



YEN. Why, sir, it is, that from henceforth you would 

 allow me to call you Master, and that really I may be your 

 scholar ; for you are such a companion, and have so quickly 

 caught, and so excellently cooked this fish, as makes me 

 ambitious to be your scholar. 



Pise. Give me your hand ; from this time forward I will 

 be your master, and teach you as much of this art as I am 

 able ; and will, as you desire me, tell you somewhat of the 

 nature of most of the fish that we are to angle for j and I 

 am sure I both can and will tell you more than any common 

 Angler yet knows. 



CHAPTER III. 



HOW TO FISH FOR, AND TO DRESS, THE CHAVENDER, OR CHUB. 



Pise. The Chub, though he eat well thus dressed, yet as he 

 is usually dressed he does not. He is objected against, not 

 only for being full of small forked bones, dispersed through 

 all his body, but that he eats waterish and that the flesh of 



