450 THE COMPLETE ANGLER. 



The first with a line about half the length of the rod, a 

 good weighty plumb, and three hairs next the hook, which 

 \ve call a running-line, and with one large brandling, or a 

 dew- worm of a moderate size, or two small ones of the first 

 or any other sort, proper for a trout, of which my father 

 Walton has already given you the names, and saved me a 

 labour ; or, indeed, almost any worm whatever ; for if a trout 

 be in the humour to bite, it must be such a worm as I never 

 yet saw that he will refuse ; and if you fish with two, you 

 are then to bait your hook thus : You are first to run the 

 point of your hook in at the very head of your first worm, and 

 so down through his body, till he be past the knot, and then 

 let it out, and strip the worm above the arming, that you 

 may not bruise it with your fingers till you have put on the 

 other, by running the point of the hook in below the knot, 

 upwards through his body towards his head, till it be but 

 just covered with the head; which being done, you are then 

 to slip the first worm down over the arming again, till the 

 knots of both worms meet together. 



The second way of angling by hand, and with a running- 

 line, is with a line something longer than the former, and 

 with tackle made after this same manner. At the utmost 

 extremity of your line, where the hook is always placed in 

 all other ways of angling, you are to have a large pistol or 

 carabine bullet, into which the end of your line is to be 

 fastened with a peg or pin, even and close with the bullet ; 

 and, about half a foot above that, a branch of line, of two 

 or three handfuls long, or more for a swift stream, with a 

 hook at the end thereof, baited with some of the fore-named 

 worms, and, another half a foot above that, another armed 

 and baited after the same manner, but with another sort of 



