CHAP. VIII.] THE FOURTH DA.Y, 1 !)5 



from :m\ apprehended danger, juul then Id them out again 

 when she thinks nil danger to be past : these be accidents 

 that we, anglers, sometimes see, and often talk of. 



But whither am I going? I had almost lost myself, by 

 remembering the discourse of Dubravius. I will, thcrclon*, 

 stop here; and tell you, according to my promise, how to 

 ealch this 



Plko. 



His feeding is, usually, of lish or frogs: and, sometimes, 

 a weed of bis own called pickerel-weed, of which, I told 

 you, some think some Pikes are bred; 1 for they have observed, 

 Misil- where none have boon put into ponds, yet they have 

 there found many; and tbat there lias been plenty of 

 that weed in those ponds, and that that weed both 

 breeds and feeds them; but whether those pikes, so bred, 

 will ever breed by generation as the others do, I shall leave 

 to the disquisition of men of more curiosity and leisure than 

 I profess myself to have. And shall proceed to tell you, 

 that you may iish for pike, either with a ledger, or a walking 

 bait ; and you are to note, that I call that a ledger-bait, 

 \\hich is fixed, or made to rest in one certain place uheti 

 you shall be absent from it, and I call that a walking-bait, 

 which you take with you, and have ever in motion. Con- 

 cerning which two, I shall give you this direction; that your 

 ledger-bait is best to be a living bait, though a dead one 

 may catch, whether it be a fish or a frog : and that you may 

 make them live the longer, you may, or indeed you must, 

 take this course. 



1 See note, p. 141. 



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