228 MODERN PRACTICAL ANGLER, 
The pith when used for Chub or Barbel, should be cut 
up as required, into pieces about the size of a largish 
hazel-nut, and baited on a No. 9 or No. 10 hook. (See 
plate, p. 11.) 
W ASP-GRUBS. 
The young of the wasp in its immature state as found in 
the comb, is a good, though very delicate bait for Roach, 
Dace, Chub, Bream, and Grayling. It may be easily 
obtained throughout the summer and early autumn 
months by digging out the nest: the adult wasps, it is 
hardly necessary to say, having been previously de- 
stroyed. For this purpose the following is the best 
receipt Iam acquainted with, and as wasps are great 
enemies to the orchard and fruit-garden, I commend 
it also to the attention of farmers :— 
Procure a strong solution of cyanide of potassium 
(prussic acid) and having thoroughly wetted therewith a 
doubled piece of lint about six inches square, place the 
lint at the mouth of the hole, so that the wasps cannot 
well obtain ingress or egress without settling on it. Every 
wasp crawling over or alighting on the lint will be in- 
stantaneously killed, and twenty-four hours will com- 
monly be found sufficient to enable the comb to be 
dug out without difficulty. 
PASTES. 
Having tried most of the pastes described in Angling 
manuals, the result of my experience is that there is no 
