MAKING FLOATS, &C. 



one, but you may save the plug, and it will serve 

 for another. But if the water gets in at the top 

 of your float, a little sealing-wax will prevent it : 

 if the plug of your float is loose, pull it out, and 

 fasten it with one of the following cements. 



Take bee's zvax bruised small, chalk scraped 

 fine, and black rosin powdered, of each an equal 

 quantity ; melt them in a spoon, or small tin ves- 

 sel, and see that they are well mixed ; or take 

 brick-dust sifted very fine, and common rosin, 

 pulverised; put one part of the brick-dust, to 

 two parts of rosin, and melt them as before 

 directed ; dip your plug in either of these, and 

 put your float immediately upon it. When you 

 join two floats together, let the plug be a little 

 thicker in the middle than at the ends, which 

 ends are to go into the quills ; dip one end into 

 the cement, and put one quill upon it, then do 

 the like by the other, and you have a double 

 float : or you make it by dipping the ends of 

 both quills, when prepared, in the cement, and 

 fixing them together, which, when the cement 

 is cold, will be very strong. 



To dye quills red, which for still waters are 

 better than other floats, take what quantity 

 you please of urine, and put it in as much pow- 

 der of Brazil-wood as will make it redden a piece 

 of white paper ; then take some clean water, into 

 which put an handful of salt, and a little argol, 

 And stir them till dissolved ; then boil them well 

 in a sauce- pan. When the water is cold, scrape 

 your quills, and steap them in it for ten or twelve 

 days, then dry-rub them, and rub them with a 

 woollen cloth. 



Every angler should have two panniers, one 

 for pike, barbel and chub the other for trout, 

 j>erch roach, dace, bream and gudgeons: how- 



