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what the French call him, un villain, that is, a 

 downright chaw-bacon or clod-hopper. Though 

 M. A. Soyer, of the Reform Club, should con- 

 descend to dress him, I doubt whether he would 

 make him fit to appear at any dinner table. 



This fair outside and foul inside beauty spawns 

 in April, and is soon in its usual condition. In the 

 summer and autumn months it will take very 

 wantonly artificial flies, large red hackles, and 

 large palmers of different colours. In the evening 

 it can be readily seduced by artificial moths. 

 Its angling value rests in its occasional fondness 

 for artificial insects. I have caught dozens of them 

 in a few hours with large red and furnace hackles. 

 They are very fond of imitations of the humble 

 bee, and large blow-fly. In dibbing for them, use 

 the grasshopper, cockchafer, and small butter- 

 flies. In bottom-fishing for them use worms; 

 but in the hot months they are fondest of gentles 

 and prepared cheese. They will also take pastes 

 and salmon roe with great gusto. They are an 

 exceedingly wary fish, therefore never let them see 

 you or anything belonging to you through the 

 water, veluti in speculum. They are a cowardly 

 fish, and after a rolling round or two give in. 



