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aa dark as required. A strong infusion of green tea will dye gut a 

 useful colour. 



So will warmed writing ink ; the gut to be steeped in it a few 

 minutes, and immediately afterwards to be washed clean in spring 

 water. You will obtain another good colour by steeping gut for 

 three or four minutes in a pint of boiling water, in which you have 

 put a teaspoonful of alum, a bit of logwood the size of a hazel nut, 

 and a piece of copperas the size of a pea. To make your gut a 

 water colour, take a teaspoonful of common red ink, add to it as 

 much soot, and about a third of a teacupful of water ; let them 

 simmer for about ten minutes ; when cool, steep your line until it 

 be stained to your fancy. 



This is a very good colour for the purpose, but should be applied 

 gradually, taking out your gut frequently to examine the depth of 

 the tint, lest it should become too dark. 



LAWS AND REGULATIONS RELATING TO FISHING. 



Any person being armed and disguised, and who shall steal or un- 

 lawfully take away any fish out of a river or pond, or maliciously 

 break down and destroy the mound or head of any river, whereby 

 the fish shall be lost or destroj'ed, or shall rescue any person in 

 custody for such offence, or procure another to assist him therein, 

 shall be found guilty of felony, without benefit of clergy. 



For destroying or killing fish in enclosed ground, being private 

 property, a penalty of five pounds, or imprisonment in the House 

 of Correction for not exceeding six months. 



For breaking into an enclosed or private ground, and stealing or 

 destroying the fish, transportation for seven years, and receivers the 

 same punishment. 



No persons may have in possession, or keep any net, angle piche, 

 or other engine for taking fish, but the makers and sellers thereof, 

 and the owner or renter of a river fishery, except fishermen and 

 their apprentices, legally authorised in navigable rivers ; and the 

 owner or occupier of the said river may seize, and keep, and convert 

 to his own use, every net, &c., which he shall discover laid or used 



