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are first to run the point of your hook in at the very head of 

 your first worm, and so down through his body till it be past 

 the knot, and then let it out, and strip the worm above the 

 arming (that you may not bruise it with your fingers) till you 

 have put on the other, by running the point of the hook in be- 

 low the knot, and upwards through his body towards his head ; 

 till it be but just covered with the head, which being done, you 

 are then to slip the first worm down over the arming again, till 

 the knots of both worms meet together. 



The second way of angling by hand, and with a running- 

 line, is with a line something longer than the former, and with 

 tackle made after this same manner. At the utmost extremity 

 of your line, where the hook is always placed in all other ways 

 of angling, you are to have a large pistol or carabine bullet, into 

 which the end of your line is to be fastened with a peg or pin, 

 even and close with the bullet ; and, about half a foot above 

 that, a branch of line, of two or three handfuls long, or more 

 for a swift stream, with a hook at the end thereof baited with 

 some of the forenamed worms ; and another, half foot above 

 that ; another, armed and baited after the same manner, but 

 with another sort of worm, without any lead at all above : by 

 which means you will always certainly find the true bottom in 

 all depths ; which, with the plumbs upon your line above you 

 can never do, but that your bait must always drag whilst you 

 are sounding (which, in this way of Angling, must be continu- 

 ally), by which means y u are u ^e to have more trouble, and 

 peradventure worse success. And both these ways of angling 

 at the bottom are most proper for a dark and muddy water ; by 

 reason that in such a condition of the stream, a man may stand 

 as near as he will, and neither his own shadow nor the round- 

 ness of his tackle will hinder his sport. 



The third way of angling by hand with a ground-bait, and 

 by much the best of all other, is, with a line full as long, or a 

 yard and a half longer than your rod ; with no more than one 

 hair next the hook, and for two or three lengths above it ; and 



