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and Dace, you may life Lines and Tackle pro- 

 per for them, and angleasis fuitabJe for their 

 Humour. 



The Flag.ivorm, or Bock-worm, may be. 

 found thus : Go to an old Pond or Pit, where 

 there are Plenty of Flags or Sedges ; pull them 

 up by the Roots •, then fhake thofe Roots in 

 the Water, till all the Mud and Dirt is waihed 

 away from them, and then, amongft thefmall 

 Strings or Fibres that grow to the Roots, you 

 will find U\t Husks or Cafes o^^r^Mi^^ or 

 yellowifh, and lometimcs of other Colours: 

 Open thefe carefully with a Pin, and in them 

 hes a little Worm, pale, yellow, or as white 

 as a Gentle, but longer and flenderer, with 

 Rows of Foet all down his Belly, and a red 

 Head This is an exceeding good Bait for 

 i^'aj,ings. Tench, Bream, Carp, Roach, and 

 Dace. \i may, upon Occafion, do well like- 

 wife for Lhuh, Bleak, and Verch. 



If you pull the Flags afunder, and cut open 

 the round Stalk, you will find another Worm 

 like the former in the Husk, but tougher, and 

 in that Refped better. Both thefe Worms are 

 to be kept in Wheat-Iran, and baited on the 

 yrifiledHook^ as the Afh-grub-, and when you 

 anele for Graylings with them, ufe a Float, 

 and the fmalleft Lines, and let the Bait be 

 eight or nine Inches from the Ground A 

 Trc^t rarely takes either Jfi-grub, or Fkg-^ 

 worm, ^ 



GV;///^/, ox Maggots, are kept with dead 



i^lelh, Beads Liver, or Suet : Or, which is 



E 4 better. 



