. Birds, beasts and fishes of the Norfolk broadland . in a shal-low, he will dart off, and mud, reappearing later on. A fine old four-pound black-backed bream makes a granddish if you catch him when full, some two or three weeksbefore spawning, and cook him a la juive, as described forpike and roach. Old fishermen tell you, however, the way to cook a breamis to skin him, and let him simmer in hot water for a fewminutes, and then fry him in butter. But he is sweetertreated a lajitive. There can be no doubt but that bream mud in verycold weather, for I have known bottom-fyers throw themout of th
. Birds, beasts and fishes of the Norfolk broadland . in a shal-low, he will dart off, and mud, reappearing later on. A fine old four-pound black-backed bream makes a granddish if you catch him when full, some two or three weeksbefore spawning, and cook him a la juive, as described forpike and roach. Old fishermen tell you, however, the way to cook a breamis to skin him, and let him simmer in hot water for a fewminutes, and then fry him in butter. But he is sweetertreated a lajitive. There can be no doubt but that bream mud in verycold weather, for I have known bottom-fyers throw themout of the dikes in their dydles. Though they seldom exceed more than four pounds inweight, still numerous are the Broadsmens legends aboutthem. I never knowed a bream ter die of old age, saysone. Theres bream over a hundred year old in this erebroad—ay, old horned bream, with corals all a-hanging terem, says another. That there be, confirms another. Why, I ha caught a pike in these ere waters without atooth in his head, adds a third. And so on, and so ON A NORFOLK RIVER-SIDE. CHAPTER XI EELS The life-history of the eel is shrouded in mystery. Evenspecialists have not solved the problem, nor do they seemmuch wiser than the eel-catchers of the Broadland. Thecontradictory remarks, the legends, the different theories,and mysterious habits that surround this fish would fill avolume. Nor can I add anything to clear up the eel-mystery. Indeed, every eel-students theory or knowledgeonly renders confusion worse confounded. Some declarethere are nine kinds of eels, others six kinds, others fourkinds, others only two kinds—which is the theory I am in-clined to. Two eels seem to me to differ altogether inhabit and custom—the sharp-nosed or silver-bellied eel, andthe broad-nosed eel. But let me tell how many the Broads-men distinguish of other kinds, which may be varieties, ormerely sexual or age Broadsmen describe— 1. Stream eel, with a frog mouth, that runs in A
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