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your hook thus. You are first to run the point of your 

 hook in at very head of your first worm, and so down 

 through his body, till he be past the knot, and then let 

 it out, and strip the worm above the arming, that you 

 may not bruise it with your fingers till you have put 

 on the other, by running the point of the hook in below 

 the knot, upwards through his body towards his head, 

 till it be but just covered with the head ; which being 

 done, you are then to slip the first worm down over 

 the arming again, till the knots of both worms meet 

 together. 



The second way of angling by hand, and with a running 

 line, is with a line something longer than the former, and 

 with tackle made after this same manner. At the utmost 

 extremity of your line, where the hook is always placed 

 in all other ways of angling, you are to have a large 

 pistol or carabine bullet, into which the end of your 

 line is to be fastened with a peg or pin, even and close 

 with the bullet ; and, about half a foot above that, a 

 branch of line, of two or three handfuls long, or more 

 for a swift stream, with a hook at the end thereof, baited 

 with some of the fore-named worms, and, another, half 

 a foot above that, another armed and baited after the 

 same manner, but with another sort of worm, without 

 any lead at all above : by which means you will always 

 certainly find the true bottom in all depths ; which 

 with the plumbs upon your line above you can never 

 do, but that your bait must always drag whilst you 

 are sounding (which in this way of angling must be 

 continually), by which means you are like to have more 

 trouble, and peradventure worse success. And both 

 these ways of angling at the bottom are most proper 

 for a dark and muddy water, by reason, that in such a 

 condition of the stream, a man may stand as near as 

 he will, and neither his own shadow, nor the roundness of 

 his tackle will hinder his sport. 



