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Gilt-tails, brandlings, and red worms are found 

 in old dunghills, hog's dung, cow's dung, and 

 tanner's bark. The brandling and gilt-tail are 

 excellent bait for perch, tench, bream, and gud- 

 geon. The red worms, well scoured, are taken by 

 tench, perch, and bream, in muddy waters. 



The meadow or marsh worm, is of a lightish 

 blue colour, and a good bait for perch; it is found 

 in marshy ground, or in the banks of rivers, in the 

 months of August and September. 



The tag-tail is found in meadows, or chalky 

 ground after rain, in March and April; and is es- 

 teemed a good bait for trout, in cloudy weather. 



The palmer-worm, woolbed, or canker, is found 

 on herbs, plants, and trees; it takes the name of 

 woolbed, from its rough and woolly coat. This is 

 an excellent bait for trout, chub, grayling, roach, or 

 dace. 



The oak worm, caterpillar, cabbage- worm, crab- 

 tree worm, colewort-worm or grub, may be gathered 

 on the leaves of colewort and cabbage, or on the 

 hawthorn, oak, or crab-tree; and may be long pre- 

 served with the leaves of those trees or plants, in 

 boxes bored with holes to admit the air. They are 

 good bait for chub, dace, roach, or trout. 



The bark-worm, or ash-grub, is found under the 

 bark of a felled oak, ash, elder, or beach, or in the 

 hollow of those trees where rotten. This bait may 

 be used all the year for grayling, dace, roach, or 

 chub. They are kept well in wheat-bran. 



The cod-bait, caddis worm, or case-worm, of 

 which there are three sorts, is found in pits, ponds, 

 or ditches; they are excellent bait for bream, 

 tench, bleak, chub, trout, grayling, and dace. 



Gentles, or maggots, are easily bred by putre- 

 faction; they may be kept with flesh, and scoured 



