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liver would do, but they say it is not so good. Cut it np 

 the size of a bean, leaving a portion of the outside on each 

 piece, to make it tough. Angle-worms are said by some 

 to be the best bait, and they can be improved in this Tvay : 

 Put them in a box large enough to hold a little earth with 

 them; on this pour a small quantity of sweet cream, and 

 in a few hours they will have eaten enough to appear 

 white, or kind of striped. Xow take smallage (celery) 

 jam it up, and put it among the worms and dirt, and start 

 for your fishing. When you can get no better bait, any 

 fresh meat will do, and any bait is improved by being 

 mixed vrith tincture of assafoetida, which has the effect of 

 causing the trout to bite when he otherwise would not. 

 Some use sweet sicily, and some the oil of anise. The 

 sicily root is chewed, and spit upon the bait ; the oil of 

 anise is put in the box with the bait. Eemember this, a 

 frightened trout will not bite for you, nor for anybody 

 else, and you must go to the creek very slyly, or they will 

 see you and run away. Most of the trout do run away, 

 and so we catch but the smaller part of them. It makes 

 no odds how good the bait is, they won't bite if they are 

 frightened ; so, you see, in order to have much success, 

 you must use some strategem — that is, crawl up to the 

 edge of the stream and tbrovr the line over skilfully, and, 

 if they have not seen you, they will snap as quick as a 

 gun lock. Perhaps two or three, or a dozen, will try to 

 catch it first ; certainly it is the finest sport ever indulged 

 in. Take the fish off your hook, and don't flourish with 



