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them with fresh mould, and half-dried cow-dung, into a 

 vessel two or three feet in depth, which vessel must be 

 kept in a cool cellar or out-house, occasionally sprink- 

 ling a little water over them ; by adopting this plan, 

 I am seldom without gentles in February, March, and 

 April, in which montlis they are a valuable bait. When 

 you use any at this season of the year, (during the 

 Spring) take only as many as you are likely to want, 

 and keep them cool and close, or they will soon turn to 

 a chrysalis, if exposed to the air ; therefore, close im- 

 mediately up the place you take them from : for want 

 of attending to this caution, many lose their preserved 

 stock in a few days. 



In the Summer season, when on a fishing excursion 

 from home, I take a quantity of gentles, rather green, 

 with me, and daily give them a small piece of fresh 

 flesh or liver, or a small fish -, the small gentles then 

 increase in size, and keep up my stock of a proper size. 

 When you go out for a day's angling, with gentles, 

 put them in sand or earth, rather damp 3 for, if put in 

 a box, with bran, they may turn brown. — Note. Carp, 

 Tench, Barbel, and Chub, prefer gentles that are some- 

 what green 3 they are then of a higher flavour and 

 scent, which is very enticing to most Fish. 



Anglers who live in the country may, if they choose, I 

 breed and preserve gentles, all the year, in the follow- :| 

 ing manner : get the whole, or part, of a bullock's li- \ 

 ver, in October, or the heads of sheep, with pare of the | 

 wool on 3 cut gashes in them, and let them be well 

 blown by the flies. When the fly-blows are become ' 



