CHAP. X. THE COMPLETE ANGLER. 151 



ently boiled. Then take out the Carp ; and lay it, with 

 the broth, into the dish; and pour upon it a quarter of a 

 pound of the best fresh butter, melted, and beaten with 

 half a dozen spoonfuls of the broth, the yolks of two or 

 three eggs, and some of the herbs shred : garnish your 

 dish with lemons and so serve it up. And much good 

 do you ! Dr. T. 



CHAP. X. 



Observations on the BREAM, and Directions to catch him. 



Piscator. THE Bream, being at a full growth, is a large 

 and stately fish. He will breed both in rivers and ponds : 

 but loves best to live in ponds, and where, if he likes the 

 water and air, he will grow not only to be very large, but 

 as fat as a hog. He is by Gesner taken to be more plea- 

 sant, or sweet, than wholesome. This fish is long in 

 growing; but breeds exceedingly in a water that pleases 

 him ; yea, in many ponds so fast, as to overstore them, 

 and starve the other fish. 



He is very broad, with a forked tail, and his scales set 

 in excellent order; he hath large eyes, and a narrow suck- 

 ing mouth ; he hath two sets of teeth, and a lozenge-like 

 bone, a bone to help his grinding. The melter is observed 

 to have two large melts ; and the female, two large bags 

 of eggs or spawn. 



Gesner reports, that in Poland a certain and a great 

 number of large Breams were put into a pond, which in 

 the next following winter were frozen up into one entire 

 ice, and not one drop of water remaining, nor one of these 

 fish to be found, though they were diligently searched for; 

 and yet the next spring, when the ice was thawed, and 

 the weather warm, and fresh water got into the pond, he 



