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Alcanor hastened to appease the royal wrath by attributing the guest's abstinence to modesty. " He saw it, sire, but deemed himself unworthy to lay profane hands upon so divine a little fish. " Galen gives the gudgeon a high place amongst edible fish, not only for the sweetness and deli- cacy of its flavour, but also for its digestibility. John Williamson, "gent. Temp. 1740, " com- mends the gudgeon " for a fish of an excellent nourishment, easy of digestion, and increasing good blood. " Izaak ...Walton says " the gudgeon is reputed a fish of excellent taste and to be very wholesome. " Dr. Brookes, in his " History of Fishes, " goes still further, and says that this fish is " thought good for a consumption and by AND OF STILL WATERS. 89 many swallowed alive" Whether this belief has scientific sanction is not added ; but it is on record that Mdme. De Genlis, one day out fishing with some companions, on being accused by them of being a "fine Paris lady, " sud- denly seized a freshly-caught gudgeon, and swallowed it alive, exclaiming, " This will show whether I am a fine Paris lady !
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