now TO PRESERVE C ATER 1' ! L L A RS. 27 



Gentles aie not only the most universal, but 

 also the most alluring bait, and an angler should 

 nev^r go out a fishing without taking some with 

 hiui. Trouts have been taken with them, when 

 they have refused all kinds of worms and artifi- 

 cial flies: to every kind of fish they are an accep- 

 table bait, {Pikes and Salmons excepted) but I 

 do not doubt they would be so to them, were it 

 possible to fix them on a hook, large enough to 

 hold the above mentioned fishes. 



ijorr TO fi'nd and preserve caterpillahs, 



OAK-WORMS CABBAGE WORMS, COLWART- 

 WORM OR GRUB, CRAB-TREE- WORM OR JACK, 

 AND GRASSHOPPERS. 



Found by beating the brandies of an oak, crab- 

 tree, or hawthorn, that grow over a public 

 path or highway ; or upon cabbages, coie- 

 worts, &,c. Grasshoppers are found in short 

 sun-burnt grass, the latter end of June, all 

 July and August. To preserve these baits, cut 

 a round bough of fine green-barked withy, 

 about the thickness of one's aijn, and taking off 

 the bark about a foot in length, turn both ends 

 together, into tlie form of an hoop, and fasten 

 them witli a needle and thread ; then stop up the 

 bottom with a bung cork, into this put your 

 baits, and tie a colewort leaf over it, and wiih a 

 red-hot iron bore the bark full of holes, and lay 

 it in the grass every night; in this manner your 

 cads may be kept till they turn to flies; to your 

 grasshopper put grass. 



