BEST'S ART OF ANGLING. 



ble to fix them on a book large enough to hold 

 the above-mentioned fishes. 



HOW TO FIND AND PRESERVE CATERPILLARS, OAK" 

 WORMS) CABBAGE-WORMS, COLWART-WORM OR 

 GRUB) CRAB-TREE-WORM OR JACK) AND GRASS- 

 HOPPERS) 



Found by beating the branches of an oak, crab- 

 tree, or hawthorn, that grow over a public path 

 or highway, or upon cabbages, coleworts, &c. 

 Grasshoppers are found in short sun-burnt grass, 

 the latter end of June, all July and August. TO 

 preserve these baits, cut a round bough of fine 

 green-barked withy, about the thickness of half 

 one's arm, and taking off the bark about a foot in 

 length, turn both ends together, into the form of 

 a hoop, and fasten them with a needle and thread; 

 then stop up the bottom with a bung-cork, into 

 this put your baits, and tie a colewart leaf over it, 

 and with a red-hot iron bore the bark full of holes, 

 and lay it in the grass every night. In this man- 

 ner your cads may be kept till they turn to flies ; 

 to your grasshopper put grass. 



PASTES 



Are variously compounded, according to the an- 

 gler's fancy, but there should always be a little 

 cotton-wool, fine lint, or flax, to keep the parts 

 together, that they wash not off the hooks. The 

 following compositions make very good pastes : 



The blood of sheep's hearts, mixed with honey 

 and flour, and worked to a proper consistence : 

 old cheese grated, a little butter, sufficient to 



