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soft cheese, will usually do as well. Nay, some- 

 times a worm or any kind of fly, as the ant-fly, the 

 flesh-fly, or wall-fly, or the dor or beetle, which 

 you may find under cow-dung, or a bob, which 

 you will find in the same place, and in time will 

 be a beetle, it is a short white worm, like to and 

 bigger than a gentle or a cod-worm or a case- 

 worm, any of these will do very well to fish in 

 such a manner. 



And after this manner you may catch a trout in 

 a hot evening : when, as you walk by a brook and 

 shall see or hear him leap at flies, then if you get 

 a grasshopper, put it on your hook, with your line 

 about two yards long, standing behind a bush or 

 tree where his hole is, and make your bait stir up 

 and down on the top of the water. You may, if 

 you stand close, be sure of a bite, but not sure to 

 catch him, for he is not a leather-mouthed fish. 

 And after this manner you may fish for him with 

 almost any kind of live fly, but especially with a 

 grasshopper. 



Ven. But before you go further, I pray, good 

 master, what mean you by a leather-mouthed 

 fish? 



Pise. By a leather-mouthed fish I mean such as 

 have their teeth in their throat, as the chub, or 

 cheven. And so the barbel, the gudgeon and carp, 

 and divers others have. And the hook being stuck 

 into the leather or skin of the mouth of such fish, 

 does very seldom or never lose its hold ; but on the 

 contrary, a pike, a perch, or trout, and so some 



