and bury themselves in the sand, from which they may 

 be taken as occasion requires, when they will have 

 scoured themselves, and be fit to handle. 



The same liver will produce several stocks, or succes- 

 sions of gentles, if properly managed. The largest will 

 proceed from the blue-bottle and gad-flies, which attack 

 livers with great eagerness. I have, from a dead cat, 

 and indeed from a rat, had such quantities of large gentles^ 

 as kept me in stock for full six weeks. 



It will be seen from this, that gentles are very easy 

 to obtain; but they speedily change to the chrysalis 

 state, if subjected to much heat. I have several times 

 found ray gentles, of but two or three days' growth, 

 changed by being only one day exposed to the warmth of 

 the sun in my basket, to that form 5 in which, however, 

 they are by no means an unwelcome bait, but they then 

 are so brittle, as to be used with great difficulty. 



When this happens, they ought to be placed only on 

 the point of the hook, which should enter at one end, 

 but not pass through the other, thus concealing the point. 



If the latter part of autumn proves warm, gentles 

 may be raised to a very late date, sometimes up to the 

 middle of October, or even later 5 but the situation must 

 be favourable. 



They do not readily change from the eruca or mag- 

 got state, after that time, until the genial warmth of spring 

 carries them on j and, if supplied with a sufficiently 

 temperate situation, in a box of good mould, they will 

 remain serviceable all the winter. 



This kind of bait will be found very enticing, if two, 



r even three, be put upon a small-sized hook. For this 



purpose the wire ought to be thin, as a thick hook is apt 



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