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the advice which Tusser gives in regard to its safe keeping. 
In his liusbandiy for winter he recommends — 
"Both salt-flah and Ling, if any ye have, 
Through shifting and drjdng from rotting to save; 
Lest winter with moistness do make it relent, 
And put it to hazard before it be spent.” 
Oil from the liver of this is probably of the same value as 
a medicine with, that of the Cod; and it was formerly much 
used, with that of several other fishes, to light the fisherman’s 
lamp, instead of a candle. The air-bladders also, or sounds, 
are much valued as a delicate food, although they fall greatly 
below those of the Cod. 
The season when the best captures are made varies on 
different parts of the coast. In the west of England it is in 
January and February; but, according to Dr. Edmonson, in 
Zetland this fishery begins on the 20th. of May, and ends on 
the 12th. day of August. Mr. Brabazon says that in the north 
of Ireland it is in March, and that this fish spawns there 
towards the end of May. On the re-discovery of the abundant 
fishing-ground at Eockall, while the Cod was the principal 
object, the Ling was not found to be deficient. 
The Ling is an eager feeder, and yet it displays some degree 
of choice in the selection of its food, among which a living 
prey is preferred, although it will readily swallow a piece of 
herring, pilchard, or a slice of two or three kinds of cuttle. 
Pieces of the conger are used as bait in some places, but 
while crabs and the lobster kind find no acceptance; (for in a 
large number that were examined, none of these animals were 
found, although the stomachs of the Cod caught in the same 
ground contained them in plenty.) Lacepede remarks that this 
fish shews a decided preference for the Plaise; and, in con- 
firmation of this, from one Ling seven of the last-named species, 
which varied in length from six to ten inches, have been 
taken. Skulplns also arc sometimes found, and even a Eough 
Hound of considerable size. 
That even severe injury to the stomach does not deprive this 
fish of its craving appetite is shewn by the fact that when a 
large hook had gone down through the gullet with its shank 
foremost, and thus had penetrated through the side of that 
