Angling, or How to Angle, and Where to Go (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

Blakey, Robert

9780265740361: Angling, or How to Angle, and Where to Go (Classic Reprint)

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ISBN 10: 0265740363 ISBN 13: 9780265740361

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In the dialogues of Elfnc, composed for the use of the Anglo Saxon youth In the learmng of the Latm ton e, we find frequent mention made of fishermen, and matters re atmg to their craft. In one dialogue the fisherman is asked, What gettest thou by thine art? Big loaves, clothing, and money. How do you take them P I ascend a Shig, and cast m net Into the nver; I also throw in a hook, a bait, an a rod. Appose the fishes are unclean? I throw the unclean out, and take the clean for food. Where do you. Sell your fish P In the city. Who buys thorn? The cltizens; I cannot take so many as I can sell. What fishes do u take? Eels, haddocks, mmnows, and eel-pouts skate, an lam reys, and whatever swnns In the rivers. Y do you not fis in the sea? Sometimes I do; but rarely, because a great ship is necess here.1' The historlau Bede tells us, that Wilfn Sussex from famine in the eighth century, catch fish: for though the sea and their nvers fish, they had no more skill in the art than to take eels. The scryants of Wilfrid threw mto the sea nets made out of those by th they had obtained eels, and thus directed them to a new. Source of plenty.

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