Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III. Leonard Mascall's Boots of Fishing wilh'Hooke and Line, 1590—Mascall the Pioneer of Fish Culture in England—Some Extracts from His Work—Directions for Taking Herons, Otters, Sea-Pies, etc.—How to Preserve Fish Spawn —The Parson of Culles—Crayfish Culture— A Crayfish War—Curious Statement about the Kingfisher—" A Pretie Way to Take a Pye." " Samias. Worse and worse, but how wilt thou live ? " Epiton. By angling; O 'tis a stately occupation to stand foure houres in a colde morning, and to have his nose bitten with frost before his baite be mumbled with a fish."—From Endimion, byj. Lilly, 1591. j|ANY works on sport of a general character have been published in English, and, when angling has been included, we generally find that the author or compiler of the work has been content to take one of the existing books on the subject of angling, and make up his section on fishing from that,34 Leonard Mascall's " Booke." usually without acknowledgment, and often, as the Bibliotheca Piscatoria says, " marring the matter taken by the clumsiness of the transfer." This is said to have been the case with the first work published after the famous Treatyse—viz., Leonard Mascall's Booke of Fishing with Hooke and Line, and all other instruments thereunto belonging. Another of sundrie Engines and Trappes to take Polcats, Buzards, Rattes, Mice and all other kindes ofvermine and beasts whatsoever, most profitable for all Warriners, and such as delight in this kinde of Sport and Pastime. Made by Leonard Mascall. [Woodcut of fisher and fow/er.] London. Printed by John Wolfe, and are to be solde by Edwarde White dwelling at the little North doore of Paules at the Signe of the Gunne. 1590. B.L. pp. 93, and folding plate 4to. According to the Bibliotheca Piscatoria, other editi...