36 ANGLING IMPROVED. 



little clarified honey, temper them before the fire into 

 a paste. 



2. Sheep's-kidney suet, as much cheese, fine flower 

 or manchet, make it into a paste ; soften it with clari- 

 fied honey. 



3. Sheep's blood, cheese, fine manchet, clarified 

 honey ; make all into a paste. 



4. Sheep's blood, saffron, and fine manchet; make 

 all into a paste. 



You may add to any paste, coculus-indiae, assa- 

 foetida, oil of polipody of the oak, of lignum vitae, of 

 ivy, or the gum of ivy dissolved : I judge there is virtue 

 in these oils, and gum especially, which I would add to 

 all pastes I make, as also a little flax to keep the paste, 

 that it wash not off the hook. 



CHAP. VI. 



TO KEEP YOUR BAITS. 



1 . PASTE will keep very long, if you put virgin wax 

 and clarified honey into it, and stick well on the hook, 

 if you beat cotton wool, or flax into it, when you make 

 your paste. 



2. Put your worms into very good long moss, 

 whether white, red, or green, matters not; wash it well, 

 and cleanse it from all earth and filth, wring it very 

 dry, then put your worms into an earthen pot, cover it 

 close that they crawl not out ; set it in a cool place in 

 Summer, and in Winter in a warm place, that the frost 



