344 THE COMPLETE ANGLER. 



into a pond recovers and refreshes the sick fish. And note, 

 that when you store your pond, you are to put into it two 

 or three melters for one spawner, if you put them into a 

 breeding-pond ; but if into a nurse-pond or feeding-pond, 

 in which they will not breed, then no care is to be taken 

 whether there be most male or female carps. 



It is observed, that the best ponds to breed carps are those 

 that be stony or sandy, and are warm and free from wind, 

 and that are not deep, but have willow-trees and grass on 

 their sides, over which the water sometimes flows : and note, 

 that carps do more usually breed in marie-pits, or pits that 

 have clean clay bottoms, or in new ponds, or ponds that lie 

 dry a winter season, than in old ponds that be full of mud 

 and weeds. 



Well, scholar, I have told you the substance of all that 

 either observation, or discourse, or a diligent survey of 

 Dubravius and Lebault hath told me : not that they in their 

 long discourses have not said more ; but the most of the rest 

 are so common observations, as if a man should tell a good 

 arithmetician that twice two is four. I will therefore put 

 an end to this discourse, and we will here sit down and 

 rest us. 



