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better you may both ke^p and fcour them in 

 Meal or Wheat-bran. In order to breed them, 

 prick a Beaft^s Liver full of Holes ; hang it in 

 the Sun in Summer-Time, and fet under it an 

 old Barrel, or fmall Firkin, with Clay and 

 Bran in it ; into which they will drop, and 

 cleanfe themfelves, and be always ready for 

 Ufe. In this Manner Gentles may be pro- 

 duced till Michaehnas : But if you would fiili 

 with them from Michaelmas to May-Day^ you 

 muft get a dead Cat^ Kite^ or other Carrion^ at 

 the latter End of Seple7nber^ and jet it be Fly- 

 blown •, and when the Gentles begin to be alive 

 and flir, bury it and them together in moifl 

 Earth, deep in the Ground, that the Froft 

 may neither kill nor injure theni, and they 

 will ferve for Ufe till March and Jpril fol- 

 lowing, about which Time they turn to be 

 Flejh-jnes, 



Gentles are fometimes added to a IVorm^ and 

 fometimes put on the Point of a Dub-fly Hook 

 for Salmon-S??ielts \ but mod commonly they 

 areufed by themfelves, frequently two or three 

 on a Hook at a Time. When you go to fi£h 

 with GentleSy you m.ay put them in a Horn, 

 wherein there are fmall Holes bored to let in 

 Air, either with fome Wheat-hran only, or a 

 few Shavings of a Barber's yk'^^/^^y^j-^*^// a- 

 mong the Bran : But the bed Way is to put 

 them the Day you angle in a Box with fome 

 Gum-Ivy^ and you will find it of no fmall Ef- 

 fed. 



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