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Title: The complete angler : or The contemplative man's recreation
Year: 1800 (1800s)
Authors: Walton, Izaak, 1593-1683 Cotton, Charles, 1630-1687 Major, John, 1782-1849
Subjects: Fishing
Publisher: New York : Burt
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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s better meat than I do, norhim that is richer, or that wears better clothes than I do: Ienvy nobody but him, and him only, that catches more fisbthan I do. And such a man is like to prove an Angler;aad this noble emulation I wish to you and all young Angiere; THE FIFTH DAY, Chaf. XVUl.—0/^Ae Minnow ^r Penk, of t/ie Loach, audi^ the Bull-Head, or Millers-Thumb. PiSCATOR. THERE be also three or four other Uttle fish that I hadalmost forgot, that all are without scales ; and may, forexcellency of meat, be compared to any fish of greatest valueand largest size. They be usually full of eggs or spawn all themonths of summer; for they breed often, as t is observed miceand many of the smaller four-footed creatures of the earth do;and as those, so these come quickly to their full growth andperfection. And it is needful that they breed both often andnumerously ; for they be, besides other accidents of ruin, botha prey and baits for other fish. And first I shall tell you of theMinnow or Penk.
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Chap. XVIII.) THE COMPLETE ANGLER. 211 The Minnow hath, when he is in perfect season and notsick, which is only presently after spawning,—a kind of dap-pled or waved color, like to a panther, on his sides, incliningto a greenish and sky-color, his belly being milk-white, andhis back almost black or blackish. He is a sharp biter at asmall worm, and in hot weather makes excellent sport for youngA^nglers, or boys, or women that love that recreation. Andin the spring they make of them excellent Minnow-Tansies; for,being washed well in salt, and their heads and tails cut off,and their guts taken out, and not washed after,—they proveexcellent for that use; that is, being fried with yolks of eggs,the flowers of cowslips, and of primroses, and a little tansy jthus used they make a dainty dish of meat. The Loach is, as I told you, a most dainty fish: he breedsand feeds in little and clear swift brooks, or rills, and livesthere upon the gravel, and in the sharpest streams: he growsnot to be

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