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you the readiest way how to surprize and take 

 him. But then you must consider him no con- 

 stant companion for all constitution of rivers 

 and rivulets, though our southern streams fre- 

 quently enjoy him, except otherwise they prove 

 too rapid and forcible ; for if so, then he takes 

 up his residence in calmer streams, that enamour 

 him with bull-rushes, at other whiles with can- 

 docks : whose recreation is little more than the 

 limits of his confinement ; from whence he sel- 

 dom extravagants himself, until compell'd from 

 thence by the mediums of art, as at other times 

 by inundation, or deluges of water, that send 

 him sometimes a gaol-delivery. 



But the variety of baits to allure this fish be- 

 ing so numerous and various, I shall confine my 

 self only to a few ; which upon examination 

 will be found effectual. Compound, therefore, 

 a paste as formerly described, of honey, inter- 

 mingled with a little brandy, bean-flower, and 

 the yolk of an egg, which you may, if you please, 

 tinge with gambogium, vermilion, &c. This 

 bait sometimes, as soon as any thing, entices him 

 ashore. But in regard he is a fish inconstant as 

 to diet, some, therefore, feed him with gentles, 

 and not without good success ; some others with 

 grubs, and othersome with caterpillars ; but bet- 

 ter is that of cod-worms ; and sometimes any 



