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over them, or a very little water, and they will keep 

 from changing to a chrysalis much longer that if kept 

 in a box or bag 5 for the kit being very broad at the 

 bottom, enables the gentles to move about and keep 

 themselves cool ; but when they are laid on each 

 other, in heaps, in a box or bag, they soon become 

 heated, and, in consequence, soon change to the chry- 

 salis state. As gentles are so valuable a bait, the An- 

 gler should not object taking a little trouble to keep 

 them. I have tried many ways, and the above direc- 

 tions are the result of my experience. 



Worms. 



Cleanse them from filth, to give a tempting gloss ; 

 Cherish the sullied reptile with damp moss ; 

 Amid the verdant bed they twine, they toil. 

 And, from their bodies, wipe their native soil. 



Gay. 



Worms are a very useful and general bait for Fish. 

 I shall, therefore, carefully describe those which are 

 most fit for the Angler's purpose, consisting of six dif- 

 ferent kinds, namely the lob, the marsh, the brandling, 

 the red, the blood, and the tag-tail worm j there are 

 small worms found about the roots of dock- weeds, cab- 

 bages, turnips, potatoes, &c., but they are much 

 inferior to either blood or red worms, and, in conse- 

 quence, but little used. 



