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VlAT. So, Sir, now we are here, and set, let me have my 

 instructions for angling for trout and grayling at the bot- 

 tom ; which though not so easy, so cleanly, nor (as 't is said) 

 so genteel a way of fishing as with a fly, is yet, if I mistake 

 not, a good holding way, and takes fish when nothing else 

 will. 



PlSC. You are in the right, it does so ; and a worm is so 

 sure a bait at all times, that, excepting in a flood, I would I 

 had laid a thousand pounds that I killed fish more or less 

 with it, winter or summer, every day throughout the year ; 

 those days always excepted, that upon a more serious ac* 

 count always ought so to be. But not longer to delay you, I 

 will begin, and tell you, that angling at the bottom is also 

 commonly of two sorts ; and yet there is a third way of 

 angling with a ground-bait, and to very great effect too, as 

 shalljbe said hereafter ; namely, by hand, or with a cork or 

 float. That we call angling by hand is of three sorts. 



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