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20 rest's art of angling. 



with him, liiies coiled up. Spare links. Tu''0- 

 worm bags, one for brandlings, See. and the 

 other tor lob-zvorrns. A plummet to fix the depth 

 of the water, of a pyramidal form. A gentle 

 box. Floats and spare caps. Split shot. iShoe- 

 makers wax in a piece of leather. Silk. Hooks, 

 some whipped on and some loose. A clearing 

 rinz, which is of use to discnaa^e the hook 

 when entangled. Jl landing net, to land large 

 fish with. The disgorger, wiiich wlien a fish 

 has gorged the hook, by putting it down his 

 throat, till you touch the hook, at the same 

 time pulling the line, it will easily come away. 



CHAP. in. 



The general Baits used in Jjigling, tchere found, 

 and how preserved. 



THE reader being furnished with the best 

 rules, relative to his rods, lines, hooks, &c, 

 I shall give him a list of the baits in general of 

 use in angling; bat must desire him to observe, 

 that fish take all sorts of baits, most eagerly and 

 freely, when he presents them to them in such 

 order and manner, as nature afibrds them, or as 

 they themselves generally gather them. 

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THE LOB'TFORM, DETF-WORM, GARDEN-WORM, 

 TJf'ATCIIEL, OR TREACJJET, 



Found in a garden or church-yard, late in a 

 summer's evening, with a lanthorn; when the 



