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his belly slit, to shew his white; or a piece of soft 

 cheese; will usually do as well. Nay, sometimes a 

 worm, or any kind of fly, as the ant-fly, the flesh-fly, or 

 wall-fly ; or the dor or beetle, which you may find under 

 cow-dung; or a bob, which you will find in the same 

 place, and in time will be a beetle; it is a short white 

 worm, like to and bigger than a gentle; ojr a cod-worm; 

 or a case-worm ; any of these will do very well to fish in 

 such a manner. 



And after this manner you may catch a Troat, in a 

 hot evening: when, as you walk by a brook, and shall 

 see or hear him leap at flies, then, if you get a grass- 

 hopper, put it on your hook, with your line about two 

 yards long; standing behind a bush or tree where his 

 hole is : and make your bait stir up and down on the 

 top of the water. You may, if you stand close, be sure 

 of a bite, but not sure to catch him, for he is not a 

 leather-mouthed fish. And after this manner you may 

 fish for him with almost any kind of live fly, but espe- 

 cially with a grasshopper. 



Ken. But before you go further, I pray, good master, 

 what mean you by a leather-mouthed fish ? 



Pise. By a leather-mouthed fish, I mean such as have 

 their teeth in their throat, as the Chub or Cheven ; and so 

 the Barbel, the Gudgeon, and Carp, and divers others 

 have. And the hook being stuck into the leather, or 

 skin, of the mouth of such fish, does very seldom or 

 never lose its hold: but, on the contrary, a Pike, a 

 Pearch, or Trout, and so some other fish, which have not 

 their teeth in their throats, but in their mouths, (which 

 you shall observe to be very full of bones, and the skin 

 very thin, and little of it :) I say, of these fish the hook 

 never takes so sure hold but you often lose your fish, 

 unless he have gorged it. 



Ken. I thank you, good master, for this observation. 



