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

Excerpt from Angling, or How to Angle, and Where to Go

In the dialogues of Elfirlc, composed for the use of the Anglo Saxon youth m the learmng of the Latm 9, we find frequent mention made of fishermen, and matters re ting to their craft. In one dialogue the fisherman is asked, What gettest thou by thine art P Big loaves, clothmg, and money. How do you take them ?0 I ascend'a sh: and cast mg net mto the river; I also throw m a hook, a halt, an a rod. Oppose the fishes are unclean P I throw the unclean out, and take the food. Where do you. Sell your fish P In the city. Who bu s them? The citizens; I cannot take so many as I can se What fishes do on take? Eels, haddocks, mom, and eel-pouts skate, an lam reys, and whatever swuns in the rivers. Y do you not fjs in the sea? Sometimes I do; but rarely, because a great ship is necess here.1'

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