Crossword-Solution: BARBEL 6 letters, 24 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 10

How often have I laughed at that most wonderful conceit, and how often have I put it to my friends!" Barbel gazed at me silently for a moment, and then he pointed to the frame.

This cost me a little money, but it saved me my livelihood." After a few moments of silence, Barbel resumed: "I have no more to say to you, my young friend.

But other fishes, as namely the Barbel, take such care for the preservation of their seed, that, unlike to the Cock, or the Cuckoo, they mutually labour, both the spawner and the melter, to cover their spawn with sand, or watch it, or hide it in some secret place unfrequented by vermin or by any fish but themselves.

The Barbel is so called, says Gesner, by reason of his barb or wattles at his mouth, which are under his nose or chaps.

But the Barbel, though he be of a fine shape, and looks big, yet he is not accounted the best fish to eat, neither for his wholesomeness nor his taste; but the male is reputed much better than the female, whose spawn is very hurtful, as I will presently declare to you.