ANOLING IMPROVED. 



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being usually children's recreation, I once purposed to 

 have omitted them wholly, but considering they often 

 are baits for better fish, as Trout, Pike, Eel, &c. Nei- 

 ther could this discourse be general, if they were 

 omitted; and though I should wave mentioning them, 

 yet I cannot forget them, who have so often vexed me 

 with their unwelcome eagerness ; for the 



will have a part in the play, if you come where he is ; 

 which is almost every where, you need not seek him : I 

 find him much oftener than I desire, it is only in deep still 

 places which he least frequents, and is not over curious 

 in his baits ; any thing will serve that he can swallow, 

 and he will strain hard for what he cannot gorge : but 

 chiefly likes small red worms, cad-bait, worms bred on 

 trees, and wasps. 



The LOACH and BULL-HEAD are much of the 

 same diet ; but their principal bait is small red worms. 



Having spoken before of pastes, I shall now shew 

 how you may make the same ; and though there be as 

 many kinds as men have fancies, yet I esteem these best. 



1 . Take the tenderest part of the leg of a young 

 rabbit, virgin wax, and sheep's-suet ; beat them in a 

 mortar till they be perfectly incorporated, then with a 



