BAITS, BAITING, AND GROUND BAIT. 229 
paste so good as a simple one of white bread-crumb, and 
made thus: put a lump of crumb into a pocket-hand- 
kerchief, and having twisted it up, dip it in water, giving 
it a few squeezes whilst immersed so as to eject the air, 
and substitute water. Then wring the crumb as dry as 
may be in the handkerchief, and taking it out, work it 
for a minute or two in the hands, which should be 
clean. 
Wools, dyes, and flavourings, whether with sugar, 
honey, or essential oils, are useless or mischievous. Paste 
is a good pond bait in summer for Roach and Rudd, and 
not a bad one occasionally for Carp—but this exhausts 
its r6le. 
Paste should be put on in a pear shape so as to cover 
the shank as well as the bend of the hook. When using 
paste, a few small pellets thrown in from time to time 
round the float are useful. 
A paste made of cheese is sometimes a killing bait 
for Barbel and other kindred species. 
MISCELLANEOUS BAITS. 
Caddice, srasshoppers, meal-worms, and earth-grubs 
generally are occasionally killing baits for all the before- 
mentioned coarse fish, but they are so difficult to obtain 
in any quantities that they are seldom worthy of much 
consideration. The meal-worm, which is perhaps the 
least troublesome, breeds amongst the refuse sweepings 
of flour mills. The caddice (or as its name is sometimes 
