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Rub the Infide of the Box with this Gum, 

 and when you angle, put three or four Worms 

 therein, letting them remain but a fhort Time : 

 for if long it kills them : Th^n take them 

 out, and ufe them, putting more in their 

 ^tead, out of the IVonn-hag and Mofi j and 

 continue to do this all Day. 



Gum- Ivy is a Tear which drops from the 

 iiodyof the larger /z;y, being wounded. It 

 IS of a yellowiili red Colour, of a flrong Scent 

 and Iharp Tajle. That which is fold in the 

 ^lops ]3 often Counterfeit and AduUerate : 

 1 herefore, to get true Gumlv^^^ at MkhaeU 

 j;;^j or Spring, drive feveral great A^-./z/j into 

 large Ivy Stalks, and having wriggled them 

 till they become very ioofe, let them remain, 

 and a Gum wiil iffue out of the Hole. Or you 

 may flic feveral great Ivy Stalks, and vific 

 them once a Month, or oftner, to fee what 

 Gum flows from the wounded Part. Th^s 

 Gum IS excellent for the Angler's Ufe • per- 

 haps nothing more fo under the Form' of an 

 Unguent, 



Take AJfa-fcEtida, half an Ounce; Com^ 

 phre two Drams ; bruife them well together 

 with fome Drops of Oil ofOHve, and pu" it in 

 a Pewter-hox, to ufe as the Receipt from Mon - 

 fieur Cbarras. Some, inftead of Oil of Olive, 

 ufe theChymicalO/Z./Z^z;.;,^,. and Caml 

 mle •, and fonie add the Qtiantity of a Nut- 

 meg o^^emce Turpentine to it. But for a Trout 

 m a muddy Water, and for Gudgeons in a 



3 clear 



