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Diffohe Gum of Ivie '7 Oyle of 

 Spike, and therewith annoint your 

 dead bait for a Pike, and then cajl it 

 into a likely place, and when it has lay en 

 a fhort time at the bottom, draw it to- 

 wards the top of the water, andfoup 

 +he ftream, and it is more then likely 

 that you have a Pike follow you with 

 more then common eagernefs. 



This has not been tryed by me, 

 >ut told me by a friend of note, that 

 pretended to do me a courtefie : but 

 if this direction to catch a Pike thus 

 do you no good, I am certaine this 

 direction how to rofte him when he 

 is caught, is choicely good, for I 

 have tryed it,and it is fomewhat the 

 better for not b^ing common ; but 

 with my direction you muft take 

 this Caution, thatyour Pikemuftnot 

 be a final one. 



Firjl open your Pike at the gills, 

 and if need be, cu+ alfo a little Jlit to- 

 wards bis belly \ oat of theft, take his 

 %uts, and keep his liver, which you 



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