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used as soon as found, but they are by no means equal t 

 the foregoing. They are found in marly banks and in 

 strong clayey soil. They may be known by their light 

 red colour and yellow tail. 



Slugs and other worms have been recommended, and 

 may have been used with success under exceptional circum- 

 stances, for barbel, chub, or eels ; but the foregoing worms 

 are much better. 



Worms may be preserved and scoured in several ways. 

 I always adopt the old-fashioned plan of keeping them in 

 moss in a large unglazed earthenware flower-pot. The 

 moss must be clean picked, damped, and the worms placed 

 at the top, and a little cream or milk sprinkled over them, 

 and then set aside in a cool place. If the worms are not 

 for immediate use, some well-rotted dung and rich mould 

 is placed at the bottom of the pot, and the moss kept 

 damp. Worms treated in this way quickly scour, are 

 lively, and long-lived in the water. Every day or two 

 they are looked over, and the bruised and sickly ones 

 thrown away. A little bole Armenian is said to im- 

 prove their toughness. This plan will be found efficient, 

 and cause but little trouble. Mr Elaine, in his " Encyclo- 

 paedia of Rural Sports," mentions a plan of soaking a clean 

 coarse hempen or linen cloth in water, in which some 

 mutton suet has been boiled. When cold, put it into a 

 tub with the worms, and some fresh mould, and tie over 

 the top a linen cloth to admit air. Keep the whole in a 

 cool situation, and the worms will keep lively and fit for 

 use for many months. I have never tried this plan. The 

 first mentioned answers every purpose, and enables the 

 angler to keep the different sorts of worms separate. 



If worms are wanted quickly, they may be washed and 



