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which was above the Arming of the Hook, and 

 fo proceed with your Sport. 



But if you angle in a muddy Water for 

 Grouts of the ufual Size, from eight to twelve 

 Inches long, then is the Time to have two 

 Brandlings^ or two Meadow-worms^ or a 

 Brandling and Gilt -tail on the Hook at once, 

 which you are to bait thus : Run tlie Point of 

 the Hook in at the very Head of the firft, 

 which when you have two Sorts fhouJd be the 

 Brandlings and fo down through his Body^ 

 till it be pad the Knot, or about the Middle 

 of the Worm :'Then pufh it out, and thruil the 

 Worm above the Whipping or Arming, that. 

 you may not bruife it with your Fingers, t\\\ 

 you have put on the other, by running the 

 Point of the Hook in below the Knot or Mid- 

 dle, and upwards through his Body, till it be 

 juft covered with the Head ; This being done^ 

 Hip the firft Worm down over the Whipping 

 again, till the Knots or Middles of both meet 

 together^ Any two Worms may be thus 

 baited. 



But if you angle with one Worm only, 

 which is the moft proper Way for a Trout j 

 Salmon-fmelt^ or Graylings in a clear Water 

 at Running-line, put the Point of the Hook 

 in at the very Tag of his Tail, and run it up 

 his Body quite over all the Whipping, and al- 

 mofl" an Inch upon the Line. Many Anglers let 

 the Head hang downwards, and leavethe Point 

 of the Hook bare ; but others cover the Point 

 with the Worm's Head, nipping off juft the 



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