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put to an extremity for worms, walnut-tree leaves squeezed 

 into water, or salt in water, to make it bitter or salt, and 

 then that water poured on the ground where you shall see 

 worms are used to rise in the night, will make them to 

 appear aboveground presently. And you may take notice, 

 some say that camphor, put into your bag with your moss 

 and worms, gives them a strong and so tempting a smell, 

 that the fish fare the worse and you the better for it. 



And now I shall shew you how to bait your hook with a 

 worm, so as shall prevent you from much trouble, and the 

 loss of many a hook too, when you fish for a trout with a 

 running line, that is to say, when you fish for him by hand 

 at the ground : I will direct you in this as plainly as I can, 

 that you may not mistake. 



Suppose it be a big lob-worm, put your hook into him 

 somewhat above the middle, and out again a little below the 

 middle ; having so done, draw your worm above the arming 

 of 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. 



