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gain for four Hours, which is the beft Sport 

 of all. After that the beft Way is to kt them 

 reft •, for if you fifti for them three or four 

 Days together, your Game will be very fhy 

 and wary. Your only Way therefore, is to 

 defift from your Sport about two or three Days ; 

 and in the mean Time, take a Turf of green, 

 but lliort Grafs, as big or bigger than a round 

 Trencher : To the Top of it, on the green 

 Side, with a Needle and green Thread, fa- 

 ftcn one by one as many little Red-worms as 

 will near coverall the Turf: Then take a round 

 Board or Trencher, with a Hole in the Middle, 

 and through the Turf placed on the Board or 

 Trencher, with a Cord as long as is needful, 

 tied to the Pole, let it down to the Bottom of ' 

 the Water for the Filli to feed upon, and thus 

 leave them without Difturbance. When af- 

 ter two or three Days you have drawn it a- 

 way, you may fall to, and enjoy your former 

 Recreation. 



As I fhall mention the Sea-Breajn hereafter, 

 I will only add to^ what has been faid of the 

 Nature of River- Bream, that he is by fome 

 cfteemed dangerous to eat, by reafon of his 

 Bones : That tho' the Bream is a kind of flat 

 Carp, yet he is whiter, and of betterNourilh- 

 ment: That he is fo great a Breeder as often 

 to over-ftock your Pond, and thereby confume 

 all the fwect Feed, and ftarve the other Fifh : 

 That he fpawns in June^ or th^ Beginning of 

 July : And that tho' you may angle for them 

 from the Beginning of Jp'il till Michaelmas^ 



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