66 T^^BRITISH ANGLER. P.I, 



Hours in Water, and they will fcour them- 

 ielves, but be very weak, which a few Hours 

 in good Mofs will recover. 



Obferve when the Knot near the Middle of 

 'the Brandling begins to fwell, for then he is 

 fick, and if not well looked to, is near Death : 

 To prevent which, you may feed them with 

 Crumbs of Bread and Milk, or fine Flour 

 and Milk, or the Yolk of an Egg and fweet 

 Cream coagulated over the Fire ; Give them a 

 Iktle at a Time, and often. 



If you want to have your Brandlings and 

 Gilt'tails quickly fcoured, put them into 

 Mofs that is exceeding wet, and it will an- 

 fwer your Purpofe, but not keep them long. 

 But when you go to angle, remove them into 

 Mofs, out of which the Water is very well 

 wrung, or fqueezed. 



Some wet their Mofs very well in fweet 

 Milk^ or, which is far better. Ale-wort^ in 

 which there has been no Hops, and then 

 fqueeze it pretty well, and Over-night put in 

 the Worms they intend to ufe the next Day : 

 But the Worms muft not continue long in the 

 Mofs thus wetted in Milk or Alewort, in re- 

 gard it will greatly fwell, and in twenty-four 

 Hours fpoil them. However, if you put them 

 in frefh Mofs and Water when you have finifli- 

 ed your Day^s Angling, it will revive and' 

 recover them again. 



Others, perhaps a little fuperflltioufly, 

 keep them in Mofs^ intermingled with Earth 

 eaft out of a Graue. The lefs Time the 



