352 The Animal-Lore of ShaJcspeare’s Time . 
now considered to belong to the salmon at different 
ages:— 
“ And with this bait hath often taken bin 
The salmon fair, of river fish the best; 
The shad that in the springtime cometh in; 
The suant swift, that is not set by least; 
The bocher sweet, the pleasant flounder thin; 
The peel , the tweat, the botling, and the rest, 
With many more, that in the deep doth lie 
Of Avon, Usk, of Severn and of Wye.” 
(Aeber’s English Garner , vol. i. p. 175.) 
Of the suant, sewant, or shuin, Muffett writes:— 
“ Shuins seem unto me a kind of salmon, whereof plenty is taken in 
the river running by Cardiffe Castle : but it far surpasseth the salmon 
as much in goodness, as it is surpassed by him in length and great¬ 
ness.” (. Healths Improvement , p. 187.) 
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The name sewin is given by modern authors to the bull 
or grey trout. The bocher, or botcher, is a salmon over a 
year old, which has accomplished a journey to the sea. 
The botcher is smaller and more delicate in shape than 
the salmon, and weighs from three to twelve pounds. 
The peel is also a two-year-old salmon. Izaak Walton 
writes (part i. ch. 8) :— 
“I might here, before I take my leave of the salmon, tell you that 
there is more than one sort of them, as, namely, a tecon, and another 
called in some places a samlet , or by some a skegger; but these, and 
others which I forbear to name, may be fish of another kind, and differ 
as we know a herring and a pilchard do, which, I think, are as different 
as the rivers in which they breed, and must, by me, be left to the 
disquisitions of men of more leisure, and of greater abilities than I 
profess myself to have.” 
“ The wary Trout that thrives against the stream 9r 
was sufficiently common. 
Walton— 
Trout. 
According to Izaak 
“ Gesner says, his name is of German offspring; and he says he is a 
fish that feeds clean and purely, in the swiftest streams, and on the 
