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taken in vast quantities; at one time such an 

 immense glut occurred in Billingsgate, that, al- 

 though crowded with dealers, hundreds of bushels 

 remained unsold ; fine fish averaging three pounds 

 Avcight each were sold at one penny per dozen. 

 One salesman having in vain tried to sell a hun- 

 dred bushels at the rate of fifty plaice for four- 

 pence, left them with Mr. Golding, the clerk of 

 the market, requesting him to sell them for any- 

 thing he could get; unable to dispose of them 

 otherwise, Mr. Golding, by direction of the Lord 

 Mayor, divided them among the poor. Spiller 

 fishing for plaice on the south coast of England 

 during the summer, more especially at harvest 

 time, affords abundance of sport, and enables one 

 to vary the supply of fish for the table, as almost 

 all fih arc caught by the spiller, but chiefly ground 

 fish. 



