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preferred. Brandlings will live, some months, in pans 

 or tubs half filled with dung from a pig-stye, mixed 

 with yellow gravel, changed, once a month, as follows 3 

 turn the pan or tub upside down, put in fresh dung 

 and gravel • then put the worms in again ; if any are 

 dead, cast them away. 



The best time to collect a stock of worms is in 

 March or April, for, at that season, they are very 

 healthy, and may be kept more than twelve months, 

 by following the directions here given. 



I would advise the Angler always to take a few red 

 worms with him, when he goes to fish, even if he 

 intends to try for Roach or any other Fish ; for, although 

 paste is the proper bait for Roach, yet, sometimes, a 

 Perch will make his appearance among the Roach 

 which he may have collected about his baited hook, 

 and his sport will instantly cease j in that case, a worm- 

 bait is the best remedy, for, on applying it, the distur- 

 ber is generally soon taken : a change of weather, by 

 the wind getting up, will, also, sometimes put an end 

 to Roach- fishing, and yet the day be fine for roving 

 for Perch, which, without a few well-scoured worms, 

 cannot be practised. 



Lob, marsh, brandling, red, and blood-worms, may 

 be purchased at most of the fishing-tackle shops in 

 London, at from three-pence to sixpence per hundred. 



