CHAPTER XXXI. 



STALE FISH IN A BAD FIX KEEL DP. 



VENATOR. When I would beget content, and increase 

 confidence in the power and wisdom and providence of 

 Almighty God, I will walk the meadows by some gliding 

 stream, and there contemplate the lilies that take no care, 

 and those very many other various little living creatures, who 

 are not only created, but fed, man knows not how, by the 

 goodness of the God of nature, and therefore trust in Him. 

 This is my purpose ; and so, " Let every thing that hath breath 

 praise the Lord : " and let the blessing of St. Peter's Master 

 be with mine. 



PISCATOR. And upon all that are lovers of virtue and 

 dare trust in His providence, and be quiet, and go a-Angling. 

 [Sirlzaak Walton. 



ffOWEYER indifferent anglers may 

 be in regard to the ordinary lux- 

 uries of the table, they have epi- 

 curean ideas about fish. A few 

 hours makes a vast difference in 

 the flavor of any fish; b 7 it with 

 none is this fact more perceptible 

 than with trout. Those anglers 

 mean well who compliment their 

 friends with a mess of fish a week old ; but how- 

 ever carefully they may have been doctored and 

 packed, they lose their delicate flavor and are 

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