The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-09-28

The creaking leathern binding opens to
allow the pages to fall back to the
following typical passage:
"And lei your garments Russet be CT
gray
IF colour Ga1ke and hardest 20 des-
That with the Raiue or weather will
away,
And least offend the fearful Fishes
eye;
For neither Skarlet nor rich cloth Of
ray
Nor colours dipt in rich Assyrian
Nor tender silkes of Purple, Paule or
golde
Will serve so well to keep off wet
and cold"
OF these older English writers there
is also Gervase Markham-the patron
writer of English husbandry-who said
that "a skillful angler ought to be a
general scholar and scene in all the
LIBERAL sciences, as grammar
ian, to know how either to
write or discourse of his art in true
and fitting terms, either without
affectation of rudeness." And there
was Barker, the brusque old sports
man and epicure, who wrote the Art
of Angling" and "Barker's Delight"
The author seems to have been a pc
culiar character, half a sportsman, half
a chef in the employ of the foreign
legation, and always protesting that he
had no claim to scholarship or a liter
airy style. He was none the less sure,
however, of his knowledge of fishing
and preparing fish for food, for, says
he, in his last edition of the Delight"
81 am now grown old l have
written no more than mine own ex-
perience and practice. If any
noble or gentle angler, of what degree
soeVer he be, have a mind to discourse
of any of those wages and expert
ments, 1 live in Henry the this Gifts,
the next door to the Gatehouse in
Westm. My name is Barker, where 1
shall be ready, as long as pleased God,
to Statistic them and maintain my art
through life which is not like to be
long"
Following Barker, the literature on
angling began to contain more and
more about cookery in it's application
to the fish of stream or lake. Even
the so-called "piscatorial poets" al
most all of whom may be found in the
Harvard collection, make mention of
this branch in their treatises on fish
ing. We find, for example,
MY strung line was &c yeards long
1 gave him a turn though
found him strong
L wound up my line to guide him from
Shoar
The handbook helps much but the
cookery more.'
These crude and lettering verses arc
from one of the manuals called "Da-
lights which were published extern
slNely in the eighteenth century. There
were Delights" for the cook, the gar
amer the lady's maid, the sailor. tho
so-oler' the angler-and apparently for
every class of society. There were
also such manuals as "The Connnlaat
Housemaid." the "Compleat Farmer
ana the like, some of which contained
directions for fishing making fen
bic. IAe Id
England. of course, was not alone ir
producing works on fishes and an,
HHS lhere We're number of foreign
writer's and some few works in Latin
Inc chiet in interest of these in Tho
66,'atIEaru collection is the work of
T,'4 1dlHe ue Saluste, seigneur On
IaTlas, called by its author "Di,i,o
Weekes and Workes." which contatn"
IN a general account Of the creation ~
Palnslaklng list Of the fishes created
on the hfth day. In the translation
vas an Immensely popular English
=. among other curiositles OF the collec.
llvh - tome published from tho ola
manuscript Of a Derbyshire fisherm yin
o. 'm ~" centuries ago. entitled "Flens
ana ana me artyhshall Zee making !" Tbe
XXI, XXX s e,ll actual specimens Of arfl-
,,,l"l hies ana samples N The material
ier making them Another voln,a. n
w. ~. Mo,k ~ David Cairncross. VINO
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