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Fish in Season.
a small bone or knob, it is right; if not it is a hare ; for
the rest observe as in a hare. A rabbit, if stale, will be
limber and slimy; if new, white and stiff: if old, her
claws are long and rough, the wool mottled with grey
hairs ; if young, claws and wool smooth.
FISH IN SEASON.
Christmas Quarter. Lobsters, crabs, craw-fish, river
craw-fish, guard-fish; mackerel, bream, barbel roach,
shad or alloc,lamprey or lamper-eels, dace, bleak, pawns,
and horse mackerel.
The eels that are taken in running water are better
than pond eels : of these the silver ones are most esteemed.
Mifisummer Quarter. Turbot, trout, soals, grigs, shaf-
flings and glout, tenes, salmon, dolphin, flying-fish, sheep-
head, tollis, both land and sea, sturgeon, scale, chub,
lobsters, and crabs.
Sturgeon is commonly found in the northern seas; but
now and then we find them in our great rivers, the
Thames, the Severn, and the Tyne. This fish is of a large,
size, and will sometimes measure eighteen feet in length.
They are much esteemed when fresh, cut in pieces, roasted,
baked, or pickled for cold treats. The caveer is es-
teemed a dainty, which is the spawn of this fish. The lat-
ter end of this quarter come smelts.
Michaelmas Quarter. Cod, haddock, coal-fish, white
and pouting hake, lyng, tuske, mullet, red and grey,
weaver, gurnet, rocket, herring, sprats,soals, flounders,
plaise, dabs, smeare-dabs, eels, chars, scate, thomback,
homlyn, kinson, oysters, scollops, salmon, sea-perch and
carp, pike, tench, and sea-tench.
Scate-maids are black, and thoruback-maids white.
Gray bass comes with the mullet.
In this quarter are fine smelts, and holds till after
Christmas.
There are two sorts of mullets, the sea-mullet and the
river-mullet both equally good.
