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TO TAKE AND PRESERVE EELS. 



To take eels, there should be traps or brays at the 

 heads of the ponds to receive them when they run in 

 heavy showers, or pots filled with sheep's entrails, and 

 sunk. In marsh ditches, use a net about twelve feet 

 long in the cod, and nine feet wide ; put three hoops of 

 different sizes into the cod, to keep it open ; corks and 

 heavy leads in front, with a cord at each end to draw 

 it up. Take distances about twenty yards at a time, 

 first taking the eels out. When you find they strike 

 into the mud, use spears. Bobbing in a creek, where 

 the salt water comes in, is good sport. Anchor your 

 boat across, into which you must throw them as quick as 

 possible when you feel the check. The bob is made 

 with coarse worsted passed through lob-worms, and 

 coiled into a large bunch ; this is to be put on a strong 

 cord, on a pole a convenient length, with lead over the 

 worms, about a pound weight. 



To make a reserve of them, when taken, have a 

 bricked cistern, three feet deep, that is fed by a running 

 stream ; put them into it, make a fagot with small 

 round w r ood, and tie both ends with small chains : have 

 another fastened to each of them, giving it length 

 enough for the middle to reach near the curb of the cis- 

 tern, where have a hook fixed to hang it upon. The eels 

 will draw into the fagot, and by pulling it out quickly, 

 you may suit yourself with a dish at pleasure. It is right 

 they should be fed with good wash, mixed with blood. 



