THE COMPLETE ANGLER. 95 



Peter. 'Tis a match. Good-night to every body. 

 Piscator. And so say I. 

 Venator. And so say I. 



Piscator. Good morrow, good hostess. I see my brother 

 Peter is still in bed. Come, give my scholar and me a morning 

 drink, and a bit of meat to breakfast ; and be sure to get a good 

 dish of meat or two against supper, for we shall come home as 

 hungry as hawks. Come, scholar, let 's be going. 



Venator. Well now, good master, as we walk towards the 

 river, give me direction, according to your promise, how I 

 shall fish for a Trout. 



Piscator. My honest scholar, I will take this very convenient 

 opportunity to do it. 



The Trout is usually caught with a Worm, or a Minnow, 

 (which some call a Penk,) or with a Fly, namely, either a natural 

 or an artificial fly : concerning which three, I will give you 

 some observations and directions. 



And, first, for Worms. Of these there be very many sorts : 

 some breed only in the earth, as the Earth-worm ; others of or 

 amongst plants, as the Dug- worm ; and others breed either 

 out of excrements, or in the bodies of living creatures, as in the 

 horns of sheep or deer ; or some in dead flesh, as the Maggot, 

 or Gentle, and others. 



Now these be most of them particularly good for parti- 

 cular fishes. But for the Trout, the Dew-worm, which some 

 also call the Lob- worm,* and the Brandling, are the chief; and 

 especially the first for a great Trout, and the latter for a less. 

 There be also of Lob-worms, some called Squirrel-tails, (a 

 worm that has a red head, a streak down the back, and broad 

 tail,) which are noted to be the best, because they are the 

 toughest and most lively, and live longest in the water ; for 

 you are to know that a dead worm is but a dead bait, and like 

 to catch nothing, compared to a lively, quick, stirring worm. 

 And for a Brandling, he is usually found in an old dung-hill, or 

 some very rotten place near to it, but most usually in cow- 

 dung, or hog's-dung, rather than horse-dung, which is some- 

 what too hot and dry for that worm. But the best of them are 

 to be found in the bark of the tanners, which they cast up in 

 heaps after they have used it about their leather. 



There are also divers other kinds of worms, which, for colour 



* The Dew-worm, or Earth-worm, is the Lumbriowi gigcu of Dupes ; 

 but the Lob- worm is taken in some angling books for the Grub of the 

 Cockchafer, ( Melalontfta vulgarit.) J. K. 



