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that there be divers kinds of it, which I could 

 name to you, but will only tell you that that which 

 is likest a buck's horn is the best, except it be soft 

 white moss, which grows on some heaths, and is 

 hard to be found. And note that in a very dry 

 time, when you are put to an extremity for worms, 

 walnut-tree leaves squeezed into water or salt in 

 water, to make it bitter or salt, and then that 

 water poured on the ground where you shall see 

 worms are used to rise in the night, will make 

 them to appear above ground presently. And 

 you may take notice, some say that camphor 

 put into your bag with your moss and worms 

 gives them a strong and so tempting a smell that 

 the fish fare the worse and you the better for it. 



And now I shall show you how to bait your 

 hook with a worm, so as shall prevent you from 

 much trouble, and the loss of many a hook too, 

 when you fish for a trout with a running line ; that 

 is to say, when you fish for him by hand at the 

 ground. I will direct you in this as plainly as I 

 can, that you may not mistake. 



Suppose it be a big lob-worm : put your hook 

 into him somewhat above the middle, and out 

 again a little below the middle. Having done so, 

 draw your worm above the arming of your hook ; 

 but note that at the entering of your hook it must 

 not be at the head-end of the worm, but at the tail- 

 end of him, that the point of your hook may come 

 out toward the head-end, and, having drawn him 

 above the arming of your hook, then put the point 



