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of this mixture amongst old loaf bread, roll 

 it with a roller on a board until it become 

 tough enough to cling to the hooks; let it 

 be fished with the same day. Minnows can 

 be tried in the same way, also trouts or any 

 kind of animal known as the food of fish. I 

 have tried worms with success ; put a quan- 

 tity of them into a bottle, cork it and put it 

 into hot stable dung, let it remain there till 

 the worms are dissolved to an oil, then rnix 

 them with glycerine or sperm oil, and let 

 the mixture be made into a paste as above. 



Another clear water bait I used was a 

 grub or worm which crawls about in back 

 waters and eddies with a parcel of twigs for 

 a case; sometimes this case was made of 

 grains of sand glued together by the animal 

 itself; this is the first fly that comes out in 

 spring. I have turned these grubs out of 

 their cases and put the hook through the 

 middle of one crosswise, or at right angles, 

 then I drew the second up the hook, the 

 same as a worm to hide the hook ; I kept 

 the float so as to let the bait be six or seven 

 inches from the bottom, with a lead pellet 

 at the foot of the casting line, the hook 



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