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out, and fo fcoiir themfelve?. When they have 

 remained there twenty-four Hours, wafh out" 

 your CJoth, as before, but do not dry it ; and 

 then wet it again with fome of the fame Li- 

 quor, and having placed your Worms there- 

 on, keep them in a clofe Cellar. Repeat this 

 every other Day during the Heat of Summer* 

 and you will not only preferve your Worms 

 alive for three Weeks or a Month, but make 

 them very red and tough. When you take 

 out any for angling, put them into Mofs that 

 has been well waflied, and not wrung dry- and 

 when you come home at Night, put them again 

 into your Pan, by which they will recover them- 

 felves, and gather frelh Strength. Re fare that 

 there is no Salt in your Beef Liquor \ for if there 

 be,it will certainly purge your Worms to Death. 



I proceed now to the Palmer-worm^ Pal- 

 mer-fly^ fFool'bedy or Canker^ which are all 

 one Worm, bred on Herbs, Plants, or Trees, 

 and if not a perfed Caterpillar, is certainly a 

 Species of it. Thefe are rough and woolly on 

 the outward Parts, whence they have the 

 Name of Wool-beds. They are good Baits 

 either for Trout, Chub, Grayling, Roach, or 

 Dace, Palmer fly and May fly are the ^^ry 

 Foundation of all Fly- Angling. 



Caterpillars, Oak-worfn, Cabbage-zvorm, 

 Colewort-worm or Grub, Crabtree-worfn or 

 Jack, are all bred on Herbs, Plants, or Trees, 

 and may be kept with the Leaves of thofe 

 Trees, Herbs, pr Plants on which they are 

 bred, by renewing the faid Leaves often in a 



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