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or green- swards, then follow the plough, and you 

 shall find a white worm as big as two maggots, and 

 it hath a red head ; you may observe in what ground 

 most are, for there the crows will be very watch- 

 ful and follow the plough very close ; it is all soft, 

 and full of whitish guts : a worm that is in Norfolk, 

 and some other counties, called a Grub, and is bred 

 of the spawn or eggs of a beetle, which she leaves 

 in holes that she digs in the ground under cow or 

 horse-dung, and there rests all winter, and in March 

 or April, comes to be first a red, and then a black 

 beetle : gather a thousand or two of these, and put 

 them with a peck or two of their own earth, into 

 some tub or firkin, and cover and keep them so 

 warm that the frost, or cold air or winds, kill them 

 not : these you may keep all winter, and kill fish 

 with them at any time ; and if you put some of 

 them into a little earth and honey a day before you 

 use them, you will find them an excellent bait for 

 Bream, Carp, or indeed for almost any fish. 



And after this manner you may also keep gentles 

 all winter, which are a good bait then, and much 

 the better for being lively and tough. Or you may 

 breed and keep gentles thus : take a piece of beast's 

 liver, and with a cross stick, hang it in some cor- 

 ner over a pot or barrel, half full of dry clay ; and 

 as the gentles grow big, they will fall into the 

 barrel, and scour themselves, and be always ready 

 for use whensoever you incline to fish ; and these 

 gentles may be thus created till after Michaelmas. 



