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tight enough tied to use again ; if not, re-tie them, 

 and occasionally rub your lines with a little sweet 

 oil, mutton- suet, or wax candle, to keep them from 

 suddenly snapping, which they are apt to do when too 

 dry. 



It is best to keep gut and hair in parchment, 

 moistened with oil of almonds or salad oil, same as 

 musicians keep their violin-strings in. 



When your line becomes ragged and chafed, rub 

 it up and down with a piece of India Rubber, which 

 will immediately make it smooth -, and also notice, 

 that by rubbing gut or hair which has laid in coils, 

 with India Rubber, it instantly becomes straight, espe- 

 cially those pieces to which hooks are tied, as those 

 pieces are usually kept coiled up. 



Accustom yourself to use fine tackle, which will 

 the sooner make you a skilful Angler, by greater care 

 being requisite in using it : if you, perchance, break 

 your tackle, do not lose your temper, but sit down 

 and diligently repair the damage done, then begin 

 again : — recollect, hope and patience support the 

 Fisherman. 



Angling for Fish, in ponds, is more fit for the inex- 

 perienced or novice in angling, than in rivers or swift 

 streams, for, generally speaking, Fish, in ponds and 

 still waters, are not so large, strong, active or well- 

 fed, as Fish are in rivers ; they are, therefore, more 

 easily allured and taken by a baited hook : neither 

 is it of such material consequence to provide such 

 tine or superior tackle, to plumb the depth so accu- 



