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Of the Bait- Box. 



This term applies both to your live, and to your dead 

 baits. In regard to the former, which does not relate to 

 worms, but to gentles, natural files, caterpillars, gruls, 

 &:c. nothing is better than a small, round, flattish tin box, 

 japaned both within and without. Many of the sixpenny 

 snuff-boxes suit this purpose admirably 3 but their lids 

 should be pierced with very small holes, for the admission 

 of air j else the baits will inevitably die. 



You should have three or four of these little boxes, 

 marking them on the outside ; so as to know their con- 

 tents : for gentles should never be kept with files, nor 

 fiies \\idigrid-s, &c. Cadlatcs should also be kept sepa- 

 rately in a box with a little moist cotton, wool, &c. 

 picked light : keep gentles in moist bran. 



Your box for dead laits should be a very large flat to- 

 bacco-box, japaned within and without - } the lid should 

 not be perforated, but should fit very close. In this lay a 

 little fresh, clean bran, put your dead fishes in so as not 

 to come in contact, then fill up, as full as you can make 

 the box hold, with bran, and keep the lid tight down. 



In this mode your dead laits will keep well sometimes 

 even to the third day : but such should only be done front 

 real necessity, as the freshest bait is always the most in- 

 viting. 



Never allow your fishes intended for baits, to lay about, 

 ?)or put them into grass. Lose no time in suffocating them 

 in_ fine bran, in which they will retain their lustre, not 

 will their scales stiffen, nor fall off; as is usually the case, 

 v/hen die fishes are handled in a careless manner, or are 

 left exposed to the air. In packing, put the longest in the 



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