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kill them not ; every third day in Summer change your 

 moss, and once in the week in Whiter ; the longer you 

 keep them before you use them the better: clean 

 scouring your worms makes them clear, red, tough, 

 and to live long on the hook, and to keep colour, and 

 therefore more desireable to the fish : a. little Bol Amo- 

 niac put to them, will much further your desire, and 

 scour them in a short time : or you may put them all 

 night in water, and they will scour themselves, which 

 will weaken them 5 but a few hours in good moss will 

 recover them. Lest your worms die, you may feed 

 them with crumbs of bread and milk, or fine flour and 

 milk, or the yolk of an egg, and sweet cream coagu- 

 lated over the fire, given to them a little and often ; 

 sometimes also put to them earth cast out of a grave, 

 the newer the grave the better ; I mean the shorter time 

 the party hath been buried, you will find the fish will 

 exceedingly covet them after this earth, and here you 

 may gather what gum that is, which J. D. in his Secrets 

 of Angling , calls ' Gum of Life/ 



3. You must keep all other sorts of worms with 

 the leaves of those trees and herbs on which they are 

 bred, renewing the leaves often in a day, and put in 

 fresh for the old ones : the boxes you keep them in 

 must have a few small holes to let in air. 



4. Keep gentles or maggots with dead flesh, 

 beast' 5 livers, or suet ; cleanse or scour them in meal, 

 or bran, which is better; you may breed them by prick- 

 ing a beast's liver full of holes, hang it in the sun in 

 Summer time; set an old course barrel, or small firkin, 



