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wings of a Goofe or Duck, and fhe 

 chafed over a Pond: and the like 

 may be done with turning three or 

 four live baits thus faftened to blad- 

 ders, or boughs, or bottles of hay, or 

 flags, to fwim down a River, whilft 

 you walk quietly on the fhore along 

 with them, and are ftill in expecta- 

 tion of fport. The reft muft be 

 taught you by practice, for time will 

 not alow me to fay more of this 

 kind of fifhing with live baits. 



And for your dead bait for a Pike, 

 for that you may be taught by one 

 dayes going a fifhing with me or a- 

 ny other body that fifhes for him , 

 for the baiting your hook with a 

 dead Gudgion or a Rocb, and moving 

 it up and down the water, is too ea- 

 fie a thing to take up any time to di- 

 redt you to do it; and yet, becaufe 

 I cut you fhort in that, I will com- 

 mute for it, by telling you that that 

 was told me for a fecret: it is 

 this: 



Di/ofoe 



