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work it, and coloured with saffron. In winter, fat 

 rusty bacon instead of butter. Crumbs of bread, 

 worked with honey, and moistened with gum-ivy 

 water. The inside of a French roll, or crumbs of 

 ad, worked well with clean hands with water 

 alone. What fishes each of these pastes are pro- 

 per for, the reader will find under the description 

 of each fish, therefore I shall only make the fol- 

 lowing observations concerning pastes, which may 

 be of use to young anglers, because founded on 

 experience : note, that in September, and all the 

 winter months, when you angle for chubs, carps, 

 and breams, with paste, let the bait be as large as 

 a hazel-nut ; but for roach and dace, the bigness 

 of a pea is sufficient. Chuse a still place, use a 

 quill float, a small hook, and strike at the first bi- 

 ting of the fish. 



When you wish to have your pastes of a yellow 

 colour, use a little turmeric; when of a flesh or 

 salmon colour, vermilion or red lead. 



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Sheep's blood, placed on a trencher till it be- 

 comes pretty hard, then cut into small pieces pro- 

 portioned to the size of the hook : put a little salt 

 to it, and it will prevent its growing black. Wheat 

 or malt, boiled soft in milk, and the husk taken 

 off, a good bait either in winter or summer. The 

 ant-fly, found in June, July, August, and the be- 

 ginning of September, in mole-hills or ant-nests, 

 where they breed : take some of the earth, and 

 the roots of the grass which grow upon it, and put 

 all in a glass bottle, then gather some of the lar- 

 gest and blackest ant-flies, and put them into the 



