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Here is another pleasing allurement : 



Take the Bones or Scull of a dead Man, at the 

 opening of a Grave, and beat the same into powder, 

 and put of this powder into the Moss wherein you 

 keep your worms, but others like Grave-earth as well. 



The following prescription for the Unguentum 

 Piscatorum Mirabile y which, "if in the hand of an 

 Artist, prodigiously causes Fish to bite," is contained 

 in the second and third editions only : 



R/ Of Man's Fat, Cat's Fat, Heron's Fat, and of 

 the best Assafcetida, of each two Drams, Mummy 

 finely powdered two Drams, Cummin Seed finely 

 powdered two Scruples, and of Camphor, Galbanum, 

 and Venice Turpentine, of each one Dram, Civet 

 grains two ; make according to Art, &c. 



The man's fat is to be obtained from the dissecting- 

 rooms, and most of the other ingredients from the 

 apothecaries' shops. 



The instructions which Chetham gives for fishing 

 with paste differ very little from those given in the 

 angling manuals of the present time for roach 

 fishing : " When you Angle with Paste, have a 

 small Hook, quick Eye, a nimble Hand and Rod ; 

 and that somewhat stiff too, or both bait and Fish 

 are lost ; and, you must strike at the very first time 

 you perceive them bite." 



Chetham recommends the use of a "good Micro- 

 scope, or magnifying Glass," to examine the contents 

 of the stomach of the first fish caught, so that : 

 " You may (with some Pleasure and Delight to you) 



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