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was actually tamed and rendered somewhat intelligent. 

 It was taken home by some very pious woman, and 

 learned to speak the Dutch language. Parival says, " it 

 had some notion of a deity, and made its reverences very 

 devoutly when it passed a crucifix." It was taken to 

 some neighbonring town, but always shewed a longing for 

 the water. At its death it was allowed Christian burial. 

 In the early part of the reign of James I, the art of 

 Angling was often spiritualized, both in sermons, and in 

 serious moral essays. We have Samuel Gardiner, a 

 Doctor of Divinity, writing a book on fishing, " Wherein 

 is shewed, by conference with Scriptures, the agreement 

 betweene the fishermen, fishes, and fishing of both natures, 

 temporall and spirituall." His text is from Matthew, iv, 19. 

 " I will make you fishers of men." This was printed 

 in 1606, and is dedicated to " Sir Harrie Gaudie, Sir 

 Miles Corbet, Sir Hamond Le Strange, Sir Henry Spelman, 

 knights, my verie kind friends." Kawling's sermon, 

 preached at Mercer's Chapel, " Fishermen Fishers of 

 men," 1609, is well known. In 1615, we find a Dr. 

 Turnbull preaching a sermon, afterwards printed, in which 

 he draws a parallel between the method of angling, and 

 the mode in which the devil seduces people into the com- 

 mission of crime. The preacher says: "The devil is an 

 arch fisherman. He troubleth the waters maketh them 

 thick and puddley, that his poor blind captives may not 

 see the baites he is going to trouble them with. He 

 throws in among the passions of men, his ground or 



