170 ANCIENT ANGLING AUTHORS 



ing 3 or 4 Fishes, cast in a handful of Grains, and 

 now and then lifting the Float above Water, and so 

 you may catch many Fishes. 



The following is the passage in which reference is 

 made to The Angler's Sure Guide : 



To Angle with an artificial Fly, that is, a Fly in 

 the likeness of a natural Fly ; you must have Fur, 

 Feathers, Wool, Down, Silk, Worsted, Bears hair, 

 Spaniels hair, Dogs hair, Sheeps Wooll, Mo-hair, 

 Cow-hair, Camlets, Furs, Hackles or Feathers of a 

 Cocks neck or tail of several Colours, Silk of all 

 Colours, Wire and Twist, Silver Twist, Gold Twist, 

 Silver and Gold Wire (Read some of these in a Curious 

 Book lately printed called, The Anglers sure Guide. 

 Sold at the Ring in Little Brittairi), and the like, 

 suitable and proportionable to the Fly you would 

 imitate. 



Mr Pearson's reprint is not a complete one ; it 

 terminates with the instructions given for obtaining 

 worms by shaking the earth by driving a poker into 

 the ground. Mr Pearson appends the following note 

 to his reprint : " The above was also reprinted in an 

 altered and extended form, with the same woodcut, 

 in a larger work, entitled, The Compleat Husband- 

 man and Gentleman's Recreation, i8mo, is.; and 

 in The Husbandman's Jewel, i8mo, is., both printed 

 for G. Conyers, at the Ring in Little Brittain, 

 circa 1654." This note as far as the date is con- 

 cerned is incorrect. The Young Sportsman's In- 

 structor was printed in a slightly altered form in 

 The Husbandman's Jewel, which was published at 



