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all the reft. Hairy-worms^ if full grown, are 

 near four Inches long, flat and broad, and re- 

 femble an Earwig. They are found on the 

 Sea-fhore, when the fait Water has left it, 

 and to be dug out with a Spade, as you would 

 dig for Earth-worms. When you have wafli- 

 ed them from their Filth and Dirt in fait Wa- 

 ter, they will appear to be of a fine, pale, flefh 

 Colour. They are to be placed upon the 

 , Hook with their Heads foremoft, leav^ing a- 

 bout an Inch to play in the Water, 



The Angler muft not be furprized if in 

 Rock-fifhing he fometimes finds his Hook to 

 be faftened under Water. If he cannot get it 

 Joofe in two or three Offers, he has nothing to 

 do but to wait with Patience, or take off his 

 Line from the Rod, and make faft the Top 

 of it, that it may not be drawn into the Wa- 

 ter. It often will be loofened in half a Quar- 

 ter of an Hour, and fometimes not till the 

 Tide ebbs almoft as low as the Place where it 

 is faftcned. This Accident is occalioned by 

 an ill-favoured little Fifli, called a Cohler, or 

 Miller's Tijumby which, as foon as he has 

 fucked in the Bait, retires into the Cleft of the 

 Rock, and turning him about, renders it im- 

 poflible to difengagehim, till he has a mind to 

 come out himfelf, or till the (inking of the 

 Water compels him to it. As there is but 

 little Meat upon this Fifh, and that too is reck- 

 oned unwholfome, his Fate, for the Trick he 

 plays, generally is, to have a fmall Stick 



thruft 



