4 FISHING GOSSIP. 
from Uxbridge, to which the doctor refers immedi- 
ately afterwards as “ weighing a pound” each. 
Dr. Brookes’ remedy reminds one of Madame de 
Genlis’ prescription for a less serious attack. On 
being charged by her companions, one day when out 
fishing, with being a “fine Paris lady,” she suddenly 
snatched up a fresh-caught gudgeon, and exclaiming, 
“This will show whether I am a fine Paris lady!” 
swallowed it alive, to the utter discomfiture of her 
tormentors, who declined to follow her in so vivi- 
sectional a test of fashion. 
Galloway, the fisherman at Chertsey, tells, I re- 
member, a good story of two old gentlemen, “ mighty 
gudgeon-fishers,” who were in the habit of betting 
heavily on their respective “takes ;” till at last the 
old fellow who almost always won was discovered 
with a silk casting-net stowed away under the boards 
of his punt! Almost as great a sell that, as the par- 
son losing his wife! This piscatorial clergyman, by 
the way, lived at Hampton; and if any Cockney 
wishes to remember the best gudgeon grounds, let him 
not forget his H’s. Curious how many there are of 
them scattered up and down the Thames—Hampton, 
Halliford, Harleyford, Hurley, Henley, all beginning 
with the eighth letter of the alphabet, and all redolent 
of gudgeon-fishing. Gudgeon-fishing! which I main- 
tain to be, par excellence, the sport of the poet and the 
philosopher. 
