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your game will be very shy and wary, and you shall hardly get 

 above a bite or two at a baiting : then your only way is to 

 desist from your sport about two or three days ; and, in the 

 meantime, (on the place you late baited, and again intend to 

 bait,) you shall take a turf of green, but short grass, as big or 

 bigger than a round trencher ; to the top of this turf, on the 

 green side, you shall, with a needle and green thread, fasten, 

 one by one, as many little red worms as will near cover all the 

 turf : then take a round board or trencher, make a hole in the 

 middle thereof, and through the turf, placed on the board or 

 trencher, with a string or cord as long as is fitting, tied to a 

 pole, let it down to the bottom of the water, for the fish to feed 

 upon without disturbance about two or three days ; and after 

 that you hare drawn it away, you may fall to, and enjoy your 

 former recreation.* B. A. 



CHAPTER XI. 



OBSERVATIONS OF THE TENCH, AND ADVICE HOW TO ANGLE 

 FOR HIM. 



THE TENCH Cyprinus Tinea. 



Piscator. THE Tench, the physician of fishes, is observed to 

 love ponds better than rivers, and to love pits better than 



* The haunts of the Bream, a fish which the angler seldom meets with, 

 are the deepest and broadest parts of gentle soft streams, with sandy, 

 clayey bottoms ; and the broadest and most quiet places of ponds, and 

 where there are weeds. 



They spawn about the beginning of July ; a little before which time they 

 are best in season, though some think them best in September. 



The baits for the Bream are red- worms, small lob or marsh- worms, 

 gentles, and grasshoppers. 



la general, they are to be fished for as Carp. 



