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kers, caterpillars, cow-dung-grubs, gentles, pastes 

 tinctured with cambogium, &c. But then you 

 must cautiously obscure your self, and appear 

 like an angler least in sight. Yet still there's 

 another way much better to surprize him, that 

 is by dibling on the surface of the water, if cir- 

 cumspectly you conceal your self behind a bush, 

 or the more private and solitary shade of trees. 

 But your engine for this encounter, is a natural 

 fly, either the flesh fly, the bank fly, the gray 

 or the green drake ; but the green munkit of 

 the owlder-tree excels all the rest, as the sun in 

 excellency outlustres the stars. Moreover you 

 shall find him gaping after grass-hoppers, or any 

 other insect that presents in season. And since 

 nothing comes amiss, so nothing distates him ; 

 and where the locust is, there is he ; which if 

 well examined to the center of the calms, he 

 shall recompense the examinant with the re- 

 ward of his life ; always provided he but sepa- 

 rate the body from the leatherish wing, which 

 by reason of its viscuosity is rarely digested ; 

 nor is it otherwise by him well accepted. 



"Tis true, with green cheese some anglers do 

 treat him, but then it succeeds best at the tale 

 of a stream ; at the fall of fords, into the solitary 

 deeps. And that you may know he affects va- 

 riety, let the artist at discretion exchange the 

 dairy maid's commons, for the beauty of a bright 



