DACE AND CHUB. 



CHAPTER III. 



HOW TO FISH FOR, AND TO DRESS, THE CHAVENDER, 

 OR CHUB. 



PlSC. The Chub, though lie 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 him is not firm, but short and tasteless. The 

 French esteem him so mean as to call him "un vilain ;" 

 nevertheless, he may be so dressed as to make him very 

 good meat as, namely, if he be a large chub, then dress 

 him thus : 



First, scale him, and then wash him clean, and then take 

 out his guts ; and to that end make the hole as little, and 



no 



