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10 SEA-FISH. 
silver whiting should, it is true, be eaten as soon as 
possible after they are caught. Few, however, of 
Fresh Our other edible sca-fish, be they cod, pout, 
fish or flat fish, should be cooked until a 
dozen hours or thereabouts after they are dead, by 
which time régor mortzs will have set in, and the 
flesh is far firmer and more fit for the cook. 
In concluding these introductory remarks, I offer 
a hint or two on the subject of the best 
clothing for sea-fishing. The sport is not 
as exacting as most in this respect. For sea-fishing 
it is customary to use up all one’s old clothes; and 
indeed, what with the sea-water, the bait and the 
fish, this is about as destructive to clothing as any 
other occupation. It should at the same time be 
remembered that it involves a great deal of 
exposure,—to heat in the summer, to cold in 
autumn, or at nights,—and provision should be 
made accordingly. 
The chief danger of the sun, both direct and 
reflected by the water, is to the eyes and the back 
of the neck. I usually protect these in hot 
weather by a pair of tinted glasses and a pugaree 
respectively ; but one day at the beginning of the 
present summer I forgot, or had not yet started, 
my usual precautions, and the result, aggravated no 
doubt by a long swim as soon as I got back to the 
beach, was a touch of the sun, that brought back a 
sickness and dizziness that I had not known since 
one very hot day in Ceylon. The remedy for 
this (and it is a uscful one to bear in mind) is to 
take a weak dose of chloroform and water, lie down 
for an hour in a cool, dark room, and then dose the 
liver well. The notion that commonly prevails to the 
effect that it is necessary to visit the tropics in order 
to know sun-stroke is both false and dangerous. 
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