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middle of the brandling, begins to swell, then he is sick; and, if 

 he be not well looked to, is near dying. And for moss, you are 

 to note, that there be divers kinds of it, which I could name to 

 you, but I will only tell you that that which is likest a buck's- 

 horn is the best, except it be soft white moss, which grows on 

 some heaths, and is hard to be found. And note, that in a very 

 dry time, when you are put to an extremity for worms, walnut- 

 tree leaves squeezed into water, or salt in water, to make it bitter 

 or salt, and then that water poured on the ground, where you 

 shall see worms are used to rise in the night, will make them 

 to appear above ground presently. And you may take notice, 

 some say that camphor, put into your bag with your moss and 

 worms, gives them a strong and so tempting a smell, that the 

 fish fare the worse and you the better for it. 



And now I shall show you how to bait your hook with a 

 worm, so as shall prevent you from much trouble, and the loss 

 of many a hook too, when you fish for a trout with a running- 

 line, that is to say, when you fish for him by hand at the 

 ground : I will direct you in this as plainly as I can, that you 

 may not mistake. 



Suppose it be a big lob-worm, put your hook into him some- 

 what above the middle, and out again a little below the middle ; 

 having so done, draw your worm above the arming of your 

 hook : but note that at the entering of your hook it must not be 

 at the head-end of the worm, but at the tail-end of him, that the 

 point of your hook may come out toward the head-end, and 

 having drawn him above the arming of your hook, then put the 

 point of your hook again into the very head of the worm, till it 

 come near to the place where the point of the hook first came 

 out : and then draw back that part of the worm that was above 

 the shank or arming of your hook, and so fish with it. And if 

 you mean to fish with two worms, then put the second on before 

 you turn back the hook's-head of the first worm : you cannot 

 lose above two or three worms before you attain to what I 

 direct you; and having attained it, you will find it very useful, 

 and thank me for it, for you will run on the ground without 

 tangling. 



