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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. 



Now for the Minnow or Penk; he is not easily found and 

 caught till March, or in April, for then he appears first in the 

 river ; Nature having taught him to shelter and hide himself in 

 the winter in ditches that be near to the river, and there both to 

 hide and keep himself warm in the mud or in the weeds, which 

 rot not so soon as in a running river, in which place if he were 

 in winter, the distempered floods that are usually in that 

 season would suffer him to take no rest, but carry him head- 

 long to mills and weirs, to his confusion. And of these Min- 

 nows, first you are to know, that the biggest size is not the 

 best ; and next, that the middle size and the whitest are 

 the best : and then you are to know, that your Minnow must 

 be so put on your hook, that it must turn round when 't is 

 drawn against the stream, and that it may turn nimbly, you 

 must put it on a big-sized hook as I shall now direct you, 

 which is thus. Put your hook in at his mouth and out at his 

 gill; then, *having drawn your hook two or three inches be- 

 yond or through his gill, put it again into his mouth, and 

 the point and beard out at his tail ; and then tie the hook 

 and his tail about very neatly with a white thread, which will 

 make it the apter to turn quick in the water : that done, pull 



