NO. VI. APPENDIX. 



VIII. Make flies in z&arm weather only : for in told, 

 your waxed silk will not draw. 



IX. In rainy weather, or when the season for fishing 

 is over, repair whatever damage your tackle has sus- 

 tained. 



X. Never regard what bunglers and slovens tell you : 

 but believe, that neatness in your tackle, arid a nice and 

 curious hand in all your work, especially in fly-making-, 

 are absolutely necessary. 



XI. Be ever so provided as to be able to help your- 

 self in all exigencies : nor deem it a small incivility, to 

 interrupt your companion in his sport, by frequently 

 calling to him to lend you a plummet or k Knife, or to 

 supply you with a hool^ afloat, a few shot, or any thing 

 else that you ought to be*iurnished with before you set 

 out for your recreation. 



XII. Never fish in any water that is wot common, 

 without leave of the owner, which is seldom denied to 

 an}' but those who do not deserve it. 



XIII. If at any time you happen to be overheated 

 with walking, or other exercise, avoid small liquors, 

 especially water, as you would poison ; and rather take 

 a glass of rum or brandy ; the instantaneous effects 

 whereof, in cooling the body, and quenching drought, 

 are amazing. 



XIV. Never be tempted in the pursuit of your re- 

 creation to wadt ; at least not, as I have seen some do, 

 to the waist. This indiscreet practice has been known 

 to bring on fevers that have terminated in abscesses, and 

 endangered the loss of a limb. 



XV. Never to preserve the character of an expert 

 Angler be guilty of that mean practice of buying Jish* 



* There are others, to whom this caution against buying fish may be 

 useful. One of the greatest temptations to the fishing with unlawful nets 

 in the Thames near London, is the high price which by an artifice some of 

 the scaly kinds of fish, that is to say roach and dace are made to fetch ; 

 for the takers of such, first, scrape off' the scales, and sell them By the 

 pound to the necklace-makers ; (who make thereof a kind of amalgama % 

 with which they cover wax beads, and thereby imitate pearls ;) and, 

 having so done, they cry the smallest, and very refuse, of the fish about 

 the streets, and sell them to ignorant housekeepers for gudgttnt. 



