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He knowing it a fish of stubborne sway, 

 Puls up his rod, but soft (as having skill), 

 Wherewith the hooke fast holds the Fishes gill, 

 Then all his line he freely yieldeth him, 

 Whilst furiously all vp and downe doth swim 

 Th' ensnared Fish, here on the top doth scud, 

 There underneath the banks, then in the mud ; 

 And with his franticke fits so scares the shole, 

 That each one takes his hyde, or starting hole : 

 By this the Pike, cleane weaned underneathe 

 A willow lyes, and pants (if Fishes breath) 

 Wherewith the Angler gently puls him to him, 

 And least his haste might happen to vndoe him, 

 Layes down his rod, then takes the line in hand, 

 And by degrees, getting the Fish to land, 

 Walkes to another poole : at length is winner 

 Of such a dish as serues him for his dinner." 

 From the modus operandi of the above, we may conclude that 

 Browne was, himself, a brother of the angle. 



The earlier editions of the " Pastorals " are now scarce, but wher- 

 ever opportunity permits, Piscator should select original copies of 

 such works, rather than modern reprints of them. There is a savour 

 about an old angling book, which no novel revival can impart. 

 Who, for instance, would choose to have Nobbes on cream-laid 

 paper and in elegant type ? And what true book connoisseur would 

 prefer a "Compleat angler" of the present day, however splendid 

 the getting up, to the quaint little pocket volume of 1653, thumb- 

 marked by dead and gone anglers, and fraught with subtle associa- 

 tions of its time ?] 



Bruckmann (Fr.) Tractatus de venatione, piscatione et aucupio. 

 Spirse, 1605. 4. 



Buc'hoz (Pierre Joseph). Traite de la peche, ou 1'art de 

 soumettre les poissons de 1'homme, precede de 1'histoire 

 naturelle de ces animaux. Paris, 1786. 12. 

 Buckland (Francis Trevelyan). Curiosities of natural history. 

 London, Bentley, 1857. 8.; Second series. 1860. 8.; A 

 new series. 2 vol. 1866, 8., [called] the Third series. 1868. 

 8., [and finally] Third and Fourth series 1872. '8. 



[There have been several editions of each series. The First series 

 (1857) contains : "Fish and fishing" pp. 227 290; the Second 

 series (1860) : "A hunt on the sea shore" pp. 151336 ; the New 

 series (1868) : "A Yorkshire fishing match." Vol i. p. 40 ; "^Jack 

 fishing on the Avon." p. 86 ; " Natural history of the salmon." p. 

 119; "The salmon nets." p. 130. These headings are not 

 preserved in the later editions which contain, in an appendix, an 

 account of the conveyance of a live salmon by railway.] 

 The log-book of a fisherman and zoologist. Illus- 

 trated. London, Chapman and Hall. 1875. 8. 



The natural history of British fishes; their struct- 



ure, economic uses, and capture by net and rod. Cultivation 



