He that will catch eels must disturb the flood; The chicken's hatch'd, i' faith; for they are proud, And soon will take a cause of disagreement.

Clean and skin the eels; let boil with salt, pepper and vinegar.

The same thing happens at the fall of the Bann, and Loch Neagh is thus peopled by them; even the mighty Fall of Shaffausen does not prevent them from making their way to the Lake of Constance, where I have seen many very large eels.

[G-8] Badcock, in using the term 'index-scholar,' was referring no doubt to Pope's lines: 'How Index-learning turns no student pale, Yet holds the eel of science by the tail.' Dunciad, i. 279.

Case and clean the eels, season them with a little nutmeg, pepper and salt, cut them in long pieces; you must make your pie with hot butter paste, let it be oval with a thin crust; lay in your eels length way, putting over them a little fresh butter; so bake them.

Skin and wash the eels, cut them into pieces 2 inches long, and line the bottom of the pie-dish with forcemeat.

Mode.Choose small eels for boiling; put them in a stewpan with the parsley, and just sufficient water to cover them; simmer till tender.

He caught one muskallonge, after a period of patient waiting which he feels he also must call long, and once, when he thought he was hauling in a fine bass, he turned very red when the boatmen laughed at seeing him "cotch an eel."

Wash, and cut up the eels into pieces 3 inches long; put them in the stewpan, and simmer for 1/2 hour.

The first seven were often of different kinds, and I did not despise the yellow and black eels, the lobsters, the mao, or the oysters and clams.

One would say 'I wish I were large enough to drag home the enormous giant eel I killed today.

Where was thy care to rid contagious filth, When some men wet-shod (with his waters) droop'd? Others that ate the eels his heat cast up Sicken'd and died by them impoisoned.

He taught me how to fry eels.

Fishing one day at Pain's Hill, near Cobham, in Surrey, I hooked an eel amongst some weeds, but before I could land him, he had so twisted a new strong double wire, to which the hook was fixed, that he broke it and made his escape.

If I had hugged an electrical eel, I could not have been more shocked!

As to the instinct which leads young eels to seek fresh water, it is difficult to reason; probably they prefer warmth, and, swimming at the surface in the early summer, find the lighter water warmer, and likewise containing more insects, and so pursue the courses of fresh water, as the waters from the land, at this season, become warmer than those from the sea.

Let boil well; add the eels and 1 glass of wine.

After breakfast we built a raft of banana-trunks, which we tied with lianas, and on it we floated about to observe the big-eared eels.

These specimens were preserved by Mr. Yarrell, of Little Ryder-street, St. James's, who had the kindness to open two eels, sent to him from Scotland, in my presence, and in which the fringes were very perceptible, though they were without any ova.

Each, in the brave way of Viti, tried to outdo the other in generosity, and Tui N'Kualita promised an eel that he had seen at Na Moliwai.

I am not saying, mind you, that had the opportunity presented itself of dropping a wet sponge on Tuppy from some high spot or of putting an eel in his bed or finding some other form of self-expression of a like nature, I would not have embraced it eagerly; but that let me out.

"Look at that!" said he as he released the eel from the spear.

Among these acquisitions I may mention a new species of Amphioxus, a genus of small fishes exhibiting more anomalies than any other known to ichthyologists, and the lowest organisation found in the class; it somewhat resembles the sand-eels of Britain in habits, like them moving with extraordinary rapidity through the sand.

" Sir Humphry Davy's opinions respecting eels are quoted from his Salmonia: Mr. Jesse adds: See MIRROR, vol.

Just is his fate Deserved; but tyrants know no bounds; nor spears That bristle on his back, defend the perch From his wide greedy jaws; nor burnished mail The yellow carp; nor all his arts can save The insinuating eel, that hides his head Beneath the slimy mud; nor yet escapes 370 The crimson-spotted trout, the river's pride, And beauty of the stream.