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or two small ones of the first, or any other sort, 

 proper for a Trout, of which my Father Walton has 

 alreadv given you the names, and saved me a la- 

 hour ; or indeed almost any worm whatever ; for 

 if a Trout be in the humour to bite, it must be such 

 a worm as I never yet saw, that he will refuse : 

 and if you fish with two, you are then to bait your 

 hook thus. You are first to run the point of your 

 hook in at the very head of your first worm, and 

 so down through his body till it be past the knot, 

 and then let it out, and strip the worm above the 

 arming (that you may not bruise it with your fin- 

 gers) till you have put on the other, by running the 

 point of the hook in below the knot, and upwards 

 through his bodv towards his head ; till it be but 

 just covered with the head, which being done, you 

 are then to slip the first worm down over the 

 arming again, till the knots of both worms meet 

 together. 



The second way of Angling by Hand, and with 

 a running-line, is with a line something longer 

 than the former, and with tackle made after this 

 same manner. At the utmost extremity of your 

 line, where the hook is always placed in all other 

 ways of Angling, you are to have a large pistol, or 

 carabine, bullet, into which, the end of your line is 

 to be fastened with a peg or pin, even and close 

 with the bullet ; and, about half a foot above that, 

 a branch of line, of two or three handfuls long, or 

 more for a swift stream, with a hook at the end 



