. American fishes; a popular treatise upon the game and food fishes of North America, with especial reference to habits and methods of capture. large and voracious. The Pike is not without its uses in fish-culture however. One or two,kept in a pond, are believed by German carp-breeders to benefit the carp,by keeping them lively, and thinning out the feeble. The enemies of Esox in America denounce him vigorously, and declarethat he is bony, flavorless, and of trifling value. He has his friends how-ever. In the reign of Edward I., the value of Pike was higher than thatof fresh salmon, and more t
. American fishes; a popular treatise upon the game and food fishes of North America, with especial reference to habits and methods of capture. large and voracious. The Pike is not without its uses in fish-culture however. One or two,kept in a pond, are believed by German carp-breeders to benefit the carp,by keeping them lively, and thinning out the feeble. The enemies of Esox in America denounce him vigorously, and declarethat he is bony, flavorless, and of trifling value. He has his friends how-ever. In the reign of Edward I., the value of Pike was higher than thatof fresh salmon, and more than ten times greater than that of the bestTurbot or cod, and in the time of Henry VIII, a large one sold for doublethe price of a lamb, and a Pickerel for more than a fat capon. Toughold Pike, and those taken from muddy, sluggish water, are of course not tobe desired, but as a rule, any one of the American species is to be chosenas a delicate morsel for the table. Roast him when he is caught, said Isaac Walton, and he ischoicely good—too good for any but anglers and honest men. / &s>t- A MM U j^-^ iz / f^.» V* ?^ m 1 i i |H. \ Vi THE TAUTOG. TAUTOG. CHOGSET AND PARROT-FISH. While blazing breast of humming-bird and los stiffend wingAre bright as when they first came forth new-painted in the speckled snake and spotted pard their markings still he who once embalmd them both himself, be turnd to fish a different fate attends, nor reach they long the shoreEre fade their hues like rain-bow tints, and soon their beautys eye that late in oceans flood was large and round and full, Becomes on land a sunken orb, glaucomatous and dull;The gills, like mushrooms, soon begin to turn from pink to black,The blood congeals in stasis thick, the scales upturn and crack ;And those fair forms, a Veronese, in arts meridian power,With every varied tint at hand, and in his happiest neer in equal beauty deck and bid the canvas now so
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