TO CATCH FISHES. 85 



seem to have escaped the Doctor, and the great 

 authorities that he has quoted. 



1. I know from actual experience, that there 

 needs no other process for making these berries 

 up, than that which I have set down ; as for the 

 wheaten meal, which Mr. Kay mentions, it is to- 

 tally useless, the plain berries pounded, and made 

 into a paste by adding water, being a sufficient 

 preparation. 



2. It not only depenas r.pon the size of the 

 fishes, but upon the quantity of the paste which 

 they pick up, which makes these berries kill the 

 fishes, or only renders them vertiginous or intox- 

 icated ; if you then take them out with a landing 

 net, and put thera into a sufficient quantity of wa- 

 ter, those will soon recover who have baa only a 

 small share of the paste, and may be eaten when 

 well gutted and cleaned, with the greatest safety. 



3. That these berries are of a deletereous na- 

 ture, is sufficiently obvious by what has been said 

 before. A porter brewer in London, &ome time 

 ago forfeited a considerable sum for fining his li- 

 quor with these berries. It is but necessary to 

 know these secrets ; but I am sure no true lover 

 of angling will ever make use of them. 



10 TAKE A PIK.E AS HE LIES BASKJNG IN MARCH 

 OR AUGUST. 



Take a long pole or rod, that is light and 

 straight, and on the small end fasten a running 

 loop of twisted horsehair and silk,, of a large com- 

 pass ; which gently draw five or six inches over 

 the gills, and then hoist him on shore as quick as 

 possible. If it is a small one, draw it not on so 

 far, and keep very silent ; you may also take him 



