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Day. The Boxes they are kept in fhould have 

 a few ftnall Holes bored in them, to let in 

 Air ; but you may keep them beft in withy 

 Bark, asdireded in Chap. III. Thefe are good 

 Baits for Chiih^ Roach ^ Dace, and Trout, Fifh 

 bite much better at the Oak-worm, or any 

 Worm bred on Herbs, Plants, or Trees, if 

 you angle when they fhew themfelves on the 

 Top of the Water, as with the natural Fly, 

 than if you ufe it at Midwater or Ground : For 

 when a Gale of Wind lliakes the Trees, the 

 Worms fall into the Water, and prefently rife 

 and float on the Top, where the Fifh fpring 

 at them as at Flies. They never fink, till be- 

 ing toft and beaten by the Waves, they die 

 and lofe their native Colour, and then the Fifh, 

 as you may perceive by thofe on your Hook, 

 value them not. But though thefe Sort of 

 Baits are taken by Roach^ Dace^ and Chub at 

 the Top of the Water, yet you may angle 18 

 Inches, or lower, within the Water, with good 

 Succefs. For a Trout you may put one on the 

 Pointof aDub-fiy-Hook, and dib with it, or 

 with the Afli-fiy and one of thefe together. The 

 Oak-worm is a very good Bait, of a line Co- 

 lour, and in Ponds is a Murtherer of Roach and 

 Dace. To get thefe Baits, beat on an Oak, Crah- 

 tree, or Hawthorn, that grows over an High- 

 way or bare Place, and when they fall upon the 

 fmooth Ground, you may gather them up; or 

 go to Cabbages or Coleworts, and there hunt 

 ior them carefully. 



Ic has been a general Notion, that the PaU 

 mer-worm^ or Caterpllar^ and others of this 



Kind, 



