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might be taught to make many other colours, but it is to 

 little purpose ; for doubtless the water-colour or glass- 

 coloured hair is the most choice and most useful for an 

 angler, but let it not be too green. 



But if you desire to colour hair greener, then do it thus 

 take a quart of small ale, half a pound of alum ; then put 

 these into a pan or pipkin, and your hair into it with them; 

 then put it upon a fire, and let it boil softly for half an hour ; 

 and then take out your hair, and let it dry ; and having so 

 done, then take a pottle of water, and put into it t\vo hand- 

 fuls of marigolds, and cover it with a tile or what you think 

 fit, and set it again on the fire, where it is to boil again softly 

 for half an hour, about which time the scum will turn yellow; 

 then put into it half a pound of copperas, beaten small, and 

 with it the hair that you intend to colour ; then let the hair 

 be boiled softly till half the liquor be wasted, and then let 

 it cool three or four hours with your hair in it ; and you are 

 to observe, that the more copperas you put into it, the greener 

 it will be ; but doubtless the pale green is best ; but if you 

 desire yellow hair, which is only good when the weeds rot, 

 then put in the more marigolds, and abate most of the 

 copperas, or leave it quite out, and take a little verdigrease 

 instead of it. 



This for colouring your hair. And as for painting your 

 rod, which must be in oil, you must first make a size with 

 glue and water, boiled together until the glue be dissolved, 

 and the size of a lye colour ; then strike your size upon the 

 wood with a bristle, or a brush, or pencil, whilst it is hot ; 

 that being quite dry, take white lead, and a little red lead, 

 and a little coal black, so much as altogether will make an 

 ash colour; grind these all together with linseed oil; let it 



