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dry for that worm. But the best of them are to 

 be found in the bark of the tanners, which they 

 cast up in heaps after they have used it about then- 

 leather. 



There are also divers others kinds of worms, which 

 for colour and shape alter even as the ground out 

 of which they are got ; as the Marsh- worm, the 

 Tag-tail, the Flag-worm, the Dock-worm, the Oak- 

 worm, the Gilt -tail, the Twachel or Lob -worm, 

 which of all others is the most excellent bait for a 

 Salmon, and too many to name, even as many sorts 

 as some think there be of several herbs or shrubs, 

 or of several kinds of birds in the air : of which I 

 shall say no more, but tell you, that what worms 

 soever you fish with, are the better for being well 

 scoured, that is, long kept before they be used : and 

 in case you have not been so provident, then the 

 way to cleanse and scour them quickly, is to put 

 them all night in water, if they be Lob-worms, and 

 then put them into your bag with fennel ; but you 

 must not put your Brandlings above an hour in 

 water, and then put them into fennel for sudden 

 use : but if you have time, and purpose to keep 

 them long, then they be best preserved in an earthen 

 pot with good store of moss, which is to be fresh 

 everv three or four days in summer, and even 7 week 

 or eight days in winter ; or at least the moss taken 

 from them, and clean washed, and wrung betwixt 

 your hands till it be dry, and then put it to them 

 again. And when your worms, especially the Brand- 



