106 ANGLING FOE OUANANfCHE 



netting going on in the vicinity of Isle Eoncle and else- 

 where by natives of St. Gedeon, and also at the mouth 

 of La Belle Riviere. It is, of course, difficult to restrain 

 the careless greed of wasteful anglers, and the fish is 

 yet plentiful enough to warrant the adoption of a law 

 limiting the number per rod that should be killed in a 

 single day. When it is a well-known fact that from 

 forty to fifty ouananiche per day have been killed as 

 well as landed, and that to a single rod, there is need 

 indeed of some more powerful deterrent from shame- 

 ful waste than the sweet, sportsman-like appeal of 

 Dame Juliana Berners, prioress of Sopwell, near St. 

 Albans, now over four hundred years old, and which 

 I may be pardoned for quoting from her " Treatyse of 

 fysshynge wyth an angle, emprynted-at "Westmestre by 

 Wynkyn the Worde, the yere thyncarnacon of our 

 Lorde 1486," as follows : 



"Alio ye fhall not be to rauenous in takyng of your fayd game 

 as to moolie at one tyme : wbyche ye maye Ij'ghtly doo yf ye doo 

 in euery poynt as this prefent treatyfe fhewyth you in euery poynt, 

 wliych lyghtly be occafyon to dyftroye your owne dyfportes and 

 other mennys alfo. As wban ye haue a fuffycyent mefe ye fholde 

 coveyte nomore as at that time. . . . And all tbofe tliat done after 

 this rule fhall haue the bleffyne of god & faynt Petyr, wbyche 

 he theym graunte that wyth bis precyous blood vs boughte.'' 



And in view of that incident in Holy Writ, in 

 which the command went forth to gather up the frag- 

 ments that remained from five barley loaves and two 

 small fishes, after five thousand people had dined 

 upon them, " that nothing be lost," which of us shall 

 make so bold as to declare that the 4ear, good prioress 



