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gets home. The worms, for instance, if any 

 quantity of the original stock remain, are worth 

 preserving against another occasion, and they 

 should be taken out of their bag or tin and put 

 into the tub or box of earth mentioned earlier 

 Otherwise they may be forgotten and only recalled 

 to mind when they have become a public nuisance. 

 This is, if possible, to be avoided. In most 

 domestic circles an angler is viewed with some- 

 thing akin to suspicion, as a person who disturbs 

 the even tenor of household ways. Dead worms 

 might undoubtedly tend to give colour to accusa- 

 tions founded on this suspicion. 



Another thing to be attended to is the drying of 

 the line, or so much of it as has been in the water. 

 The back of a chair can be used for this purpose, 

 and the novice should coil the line on it by walking 

 round and round the chair, reel in hand, and so 

 pulling the line off; the line should not be pulled 

 off with the hand and then coiled round the chair, 

 because this after a time or two of drying tends to 

 put a kink or twist in it, which may ultimately 

 become a nuisance. This line can be wound back 

 on to the reel in the same manner next morning. 

 Better than the chair back is a " line-dryer," a 

 square frame of light metal or wood which is 

 turned on an axle by means of a handle : fastened 



