166 THE COMPLETE ANGLER. [part i. 



gle : and these small pellets being a few of them also 

 thrown in as you are angling, will be the better. 



And your paste must be thus made : Take the 

 flesh of a rabbit or cat cut small, and bean-flour ; 

 and if that may not be easily got, get other flour, 

 and then mix these together, and put to them either 

 sugar, or honey, which I think better ; and then 

 beat these together in a mortar, or sometimes work 

 them in your hands, your hands being very clean ; 

 and then make it into a ball, or two, or three, as 

 you like best for your use ; but you must work 

 or pound it so long in the mortar, as to make it so 

 tough as to hang upon your hook without washing 

 from it, yet not too hard : or that you may the 

 better keep it on your hook, you may knead with 

 your paste a little, and not much, white or yellowish 

 wool. 



And if you would have this paste keep all the 

 year for any other fish, then mix with it virgin-wax 

 and clarified honey, and work them together with 

 your hands before the fire ; then make these into 

 balls, and they will keep all the year. 



And if you fish for a Carp with gentles, then 

 put upon your hook, a small piece of scarlet about 

 this bigness Q , it being soaked in, or anointed 

 with oil of peter, called by some oil of the rock : 

 and if your gentles be put two or three days before, 

 into a box or horn anointed with honey, and so put 

 upon your hook as to preserve them to be living, 

 you are as like to kill this crafty fish this way as 

 any other : but still as you are fishing, chew a 



