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about a week, or ten days, it being apt to become very 

 offensive after being softened. 



The best mode of putting greaves on is, first to cut it 

 into small pieces, about half an inch square ; let them be 

 loosely run upon your hook, in the same manner that 

 papers are slipt on to a wire file, until the whole is com- 

 pletely covered 5 observing to put on the worst pieces first, 

 so that they may occupy the shank; while the prime and 

 whitest pieces may be on the point and in the bend. 



This prevents fishes from dragging your hook about, 

 and from nibbling your bait off, and in the end will prove 

 least troublesome. See Fig. 5, Plate VI. 



.CHICKENS' GUTS, Or those of any poultry, used 

 fresh, are excellent for eels, and sometimes prove accept- 

 able to bcarlels : jacks may be taken with them, if used 

 as directed when treating of tha fish. 



CADBATES, or CADDIES. These are very fine baits 

 for almost every kind of fish. The angler must have seen 

 in shallow places, chiefly on stony or slimy bottoms, 

 short pieces of stick, or of straw, &c. which, if observed 

 attentively, will all appear to be animated. Generally, 

 they consist of a short piece of straw, coated over with a 

 I -rown crust, and fixed to a small piece of twig. Within 

 the tube of straw is a maggot, of a dun colour, with a 

 dark head, which it protrudes from under its little dwel- 

 ling, and, by means of four short stiff' legs, fixed close 

 under its neck, is enabled to crawl about the bottom, 

 carrying, like the snail, its house on its back. 



Where the water is too deep to reach the caddies with 

 the hand, recourse should be had to a tin basting-ladle, 



which 



