The types were cod, conger eel, common eel, dried fish (most probably cod and hake), hake, herring, lamprey, ling, mackerel, merling (whiting), mulwell, pike, pilchard, pollack, porpoise, ray, salmon, stockfish (probably cod), sturgeon, and whiting; they arrived fresh, dried, salted, or smoked.

Lo! Where the stage, the poor, degraded stage, / Holds its warped mirror to a gaping age.

I was too smart for my own good. I was able to rationalize and out argue anyone who told me I had a problem.

A nice consequence of articulating the method around local-likelihood estimation is that the resulting density estimates are typically smooth and visually pleasant, without oversmoothing important features of the underlying density..