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Wheat is a good bait for roach, and barley is used in 

 Norfolk to ground bait for bream. 



Cheese forms a good bait for a change with chub or 

 barbel. Cut it up in morsels of the size of small goose- 

 berries, and use pretty much like paste. 



Silkweed. Greville F., in his exhaustive little work 

 on the roach, recommends this soft, silky weed, found on 

 the bottom on stones, &c., to be lapped on the hook, and 

 speaks of several good takes being made with it. I never 

 tried it, but make no doubt that the roach as a vegetarian 

 would at times favour it. 



Shrimps are a capital bait for salmon, and also for 

 other fish. They should be boiled, of course. 



The provender of fishes is endless in its items, and 

 almost anything edible may be converted into a bait. 

 For example, fish will dine very much like humans say 

 upon fish, beef, bacon, and peas, and bread and cheese ; 

 bacon being a capital bait at times for barbel, and raw beef 

 by no means unattractive ; peas for carp, bread for roach, 

 and cheese for chub. 



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To dye Gut and Feathers. First moisten it well, then 

 dilute some ink slightly with water, and steep the gut in 

 it : if only a light colour be required, for a short time ; if 

 darker, for a longer period. This gives a blue. For an 

 amber, a very light discolouration may be obtained by 

 steeping in tea or coffee lees, and a deeper colour by using 

 the water in which walnut shucks have been steeped. For 

 a green, boil a piece of green baize, and put the gut in the 

 liquor while it is warm. Formerly the dying of feathers 

 and wools was a great mystery ; but the introduction of 

 Judson's simple dyes has dissipated all that, and any person 

 can now, by following the directions contained on the 

 bottles, dye their own feathers in any of the ordinary 



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