MAKING FLOATS, &C. 19 



for another. But it' the water gets in at the top 

 of your float, a little sealing-wax will prevent it : 

 if the plug of your float is loose, pifl! it out, and 

 fasten it with one of the following cements. 



Take bee^s zvax hruised small, chalk scraped 

 fine, and black rosin powdered, of each an equal 

 quantity ; melt thern in a spoon, or small tin ves- 

 sel, and see that they are well mixed; or, take 

 brick-dust sifted ver}'^ fine^ and common rosin, 

 pulverised ; put one part of the brick-dust to two 

 parts of rosin, and melt them as before directed ; 

 dip your your plug in either of these, and put 

 your float immediately upon it. When you join 

 two floats, together let the plug be a little thicker 

 in the middle than at the ends, which ends are to 

 go into the quills; dip one end into the cement, 

 and put one quill upon it, then do the like by 

 the other, and you have a double float : or you 

 make it by dipping the ends of both quills, when 

 prepared, in the cement, and fixing them toge- 

 ther, which, when the cement is cold, will be 

 very strong. 



To (\ye quills red, which for still waters are 

 better than any other floats, take what quantity 

 you please of urine, and put it in as much powder 

 of Brazil-wood as will make it redden a piece of 

 white paper; then take some clean water, into 

 which put an handful of salt, and a little arg(J, 

 and stir them till dissolved ; then boil them well 

 in a sauce-pan. When the water is cold, scrape 

 your quills, and steep them in it for ten or twelve 

 days, then dry rub them, and rub them with a 

 woollen cloth. 



Every angler should have two panniers, — one 

 for pike, barbel and chub — the other for trout, 

 perch, roach, dace, bream and gudgeons; how- 

 ever he should be possessed of oae, about four- 

 teen inches wide. He should alwavs take out 



