THE COMPLETE ANGLER. PART I. 



not what Snigling is, I will now teach it to you. You 

 remember I (old you, that Eels do not usually stir in 

 the day time; for, then, they hide themselves under 

 some covert, or under boards or planks about flood- 

 gates, or weirs, or mills, or in holes on the river banks : 

 So that you observing your time in a warm day, 

 when the water is lowest may take a strong small hook 

 tied to a strong line, or to a string about a yard long ; 

 and, then into one of these holes, or between any 

 boards about a mill, or under any great stone or plank, 

 or any place where you think an Eel may hide or 

 shelter herself you may, with the help of a short stick, 

 put in your bait, but leisurely, and as far as you may 

 conveniently : and it is scarce to be doubted, but that 

 if there be an Eel within the sight of it, the Eel will 

 bite instantly, and as certainly gor^e it : And you need 

 not doubt to have him, if you pull him not out of the 

 hole too quickly, but pull him out by degrees ; for he, 

 lying folded double in his hole, will with the help of 

 his tail break all, unless you givehimtimeto be wearied 

 with pulling, and so get him out by degrees, not pull- 

 ing too hard. 



And to commute for your patient hearing this long 

 direction, I shall next tell you, How to make this 



a most excellent Jisfi of me:*. 



