FISH.Barbel, brill, carp, cod, crabs, crayfish, dace, eels, flounders, haddocks, herrings, lampreys, lobsters, mussels, oysters, perch, pike, plaice, prawns, shrimps, skate, smelts, soles, sprats, sturgeon, tench, thornback, turbot, whitings.

FEBRUARY. FISH.Barbel, brill, carp, cod may be bought, but is not so good as in January, crabs, crayfish, dace, eels, flounders, haddocks, herrings, lampreys, lobsters, mussels, oysters, perch, pike, plaice, prawns, shrimps, skate, smelts, soles, sprats, sturgeon, tench, thornback, turbot, whiting. MEAT.Beef, house lamb, mutton, pork, veal.

FISH.Barbel, brill, carp, crabs, crayfish, dace, eels, flounders, haddocks, herrings, lampreys, lobsters, mussels, oysters, perch, pike, plaice, prawns, shrimps, skate, smelts, soles, sprats, sturgeon, tench, thornback, turbot, whiting. MEAT.Beef, house lamb, mutton, pork, veal.

FISH.Brill, carp, cockles, crabs, dory, flounders, ling, lobsters, red and gray mullet, mussels, oysters, perch, prawns, salmon (but rather scarce and expensive), shad, shrimps, skate, smelts, soles, tench, turbot, whitings. MEAT.Beef, lamb, mutton, veal.

FISH.Carp, crayfish, dory, flounders, haddocks, herrings, lobsters, mackerel, mullet, pike, plaice, prawns, salmon, shrimps, soles, sturgeon, tench, thornback.

FISH.Brill, carp, chub, crayfish, crabs, dory, eels, flounders, grigs, herrings, lobsters, mullet, pike, prawns, salmon, shrimps, skate, soles, sturgeon, thornback, trout, turbot. MEAT.Beef, lamb, mutton, veal, buck venison.

FISH.Brill, carp, cod, eels, flounders, lobsters, mullet, oysters, plaice, prawns, skate, soles, turbot, whiting, whitebait.

FISH.Barbel, brill, cod, crabs, eels, flounders, gudgeons, haddocks, lobsters, mullet, oysters, plaice, prawns, skate, soles, tench, turbot, whiting. MEAT.Beef, mutton, pork, veal, venison.

As food for invalids, white fish, such as the ling, cod, haddock, coal-fish, and whiting, are the best; flat fish, as soles, skate, turbot, and flounders, are also good.

[Illustration: FLOUNDERS.

FRIED FLOUNDERS.

Fried Flounders.

For hours these uncanny dogs had puzzled me, a score of vicious, hungry brutes that drew the sledges in winter and that picked up a vagabond living in the idle summer by hunting rabbits and raiding the fishermen's flakes and pig-pens and by catching flounders in the sea as the tide ebbed.

"Warburton," said Johnson, "may be absurd, but he will never be weak; he flounders well.

To dresse Flounders or Playce with Garlick and Mustard.

To dresse Flounders.

To make taffaty tarts To make fresh Cheese To make Sugar Cakes or Jumballs To hash a shoulder of Mutton To dresse Flounders or Plaice with Garlick and Mustard A turkish dish To dresse a Pike To dresse Oysters To dresse Flounders To dresse Snailes To dresse pickle fish To fricate beef Pallats A Spanish Olio To make a Spanish Olio.

To make taffaty tarts To make fresh Cheese To make Sugar Cakes or Jumballs To hash a shoulder of Mutton To dresse Flounders or Plaice with Garlick and Mustard A turkish dish To dresse a Pike To dresse Oysters To dresse Flounders To dresse Snailes To dresse pickle fish To fricate beef Pallats A Spanish Olio To make a Spanish Olio.

Amongst fishes, those are most allowed of, that live in gravelly or sandy waters, pikes, perch, trout, gudgeon, smelts, flounders, &c. Hippolitus Salvianus takes exception at carp; but I dare boldly say with Dubravius, it is an excellent meat, if it come not from muddy pools, that it retain not an unsavoury taste.

A few idle masts swayed there, belonging to small fishers and fruiters, a solid dew of pitch oozing from their sides in the sun, but not a sail set: a lonely watchman went the rounds among them, a ragged urchin bobbed for flounders in the dock, but otherwise wharves and craft were alike forsaken, and the sun glared down on them as though his rays had made them a desert.

Here is where Byron swam the sea from Europe to Asia; and over there is where King Midas lived, whose touch turned piastres to napoleons, and flounders to goldfish.

Not a mightier whale than this In the vast Atlantic is; Not a fatter fish than he Flounders round the polar sea.

Birdie's [10] animal, however, is very heavy and flounders where the others walk fairly easily.

He is eager and tries to go faster as he flounders.

"'Tis true no turbots dignify my boards, But gudgeons, flounders, what my Thames affords.