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thefe you beat up in a Mortar, or fometimes 

 ^'ork them up in your Hands, till you make 

 the whole into one, two, or three Balls, as 

 you like beft for your Ufe. But you muft 

 work it fo long in the Mortar, as to make it 

 cough enough to hang upon your Hook with- 

 out wafhing from it, yet not too hard : It will 

 keep the better on your Hook, if you knead 

 with your P^/d" a little white, or yellowifh 

 Wooll. To make this Pa/ie keep all the 

 Year for any other Fifh, you may mix with it 

 Virgin* s JVax and clarified ^ Honey ^^ and work 

 them with your Hands before the Fire. Some 

 advife^ that when you fifli for a Carp with 

 'Genlles, you put upon your Hook a fmall Piece 

 of fcarlet Cloth, near a Quarter of an Inch 

 fquare, having foked it in Oil of P<?/r<?, called 

 by fome Oil of the Rock -, and if your Gentles 

 be put two or three Days before into a Box or 

 Horn anointed with Honey, and fo drawn 

 upon your Hook as to preferve them living, 

 they fay you are flill more likely to fucceed 

 this Way than any other. While you are lifh- 

 ing, continually chaw a little white or brown 

 Bread in lyour Mouth, and caft it into the 

 Pond about the Place where your Float fwims. 

 Crumbs of white Bread and Honey made into 

 a Pafie, is alfo a good Bait for a Carp, and 

 ealily made. 



CarpSy when in Rivers, feek m.uddy, fandy 

 Bottoms, and deep ftill Waters. They will 

 not come near a Boat on a large Pond or Ri- 

 ver, although Rufhes or Weeds interpofc. 



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