104 THE DRIFFIELD ANGLER. 



vastly improved, and be worth more this 

 way than any other whatsoever : suppose a 

 meadow to be worth forty shillings an acre ; 

 four acres converted into a fish-pond, will re- 

 turn every year a thousand fed Carp, from the 

 least size to fourteen or sixteen inches long, 

 besides Pike, Pearch, Tench, and others; 

 the Carp alone may be reckoned to bring 

 one with another, sixpence, ninepence, or 

 perhaps a shilling each ; amounting at the 

 lowest rate to twenty-five pounds, and at the 

 highest to fifty ; which would be a very con- 

 siderable as well as useful improvement. 



FISH, HOW TO BRING THEM 

 TOGETHER. 



Get the blood of an ox, a goat, and a 

 sheep, with dung of the same creatures 

 taken out of the small guts; with thyme, 

 origanum, penny-royal, savory, elder, gar- 

 lick, lees of white wine, of each alike ; the 

 fat, or marrow, of the same creatures a 

 sufficient quantity ; beat all these that they 



