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fo your hook may enter, and if your 

 hook be fmall and good, you will 

 find this to be a very choice bait ei- 

 ther for Winter or Summer, you 

 fometimes calling a little of it into 

 the place where your flote fwims. 



And to take the Rocb and Dace, a 

 good bait is the young brood of 

 WafpsorBees, baked or hardned in 

 their husks in an Oven, after the 

 bread is taken out of it, or on a fire- 

 fhovel ; and fo alfo is the thick blood 

 of Sheep, being half dryed on a 

 trencher that you may cut it into 

 fuch pieces as may beft fit the fize of 

 your hook, and a little fait keeps it 

 from growing black, and makes it 

 not the worfe but better ; this is ta- 

 ken to be a choice bait, if rightly or- 

 dered. 



There be feveral Giles of a ftrong 

 fmel that I have been told of, and 

 to be excellent to tempt fifh to bite, 

 of which I could fay much, but I 

 remember I once carried a fmall 



bottle 



