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** small ; mix some juice of houscleek with 

 " them; rub your hands therewith, throw it 

 " into the water, and keep your hands in it, 

 " and the fish will come to them.'* Best's 

 Art of Angling*. Who believes this would 

 be the case ? 



The following is from the same author in 

 his own words. " I shall now give the 

 " reader the ne plus ultra of all these kinds 

 18 of ointments ; which he cannot set too 

 " high a value upon. Take cat's fat, heron's 

 " fat, and the best afsafaetida, each two 

 " drachms ; mummy finely powdered ditto, 

 44 cummin seed finely powdered two scru- 

 " pies, and camphor, galbannm, and Venice 

 " turpentine, of each one drachm, and civet 

 " two grains. Make them sccunaem artem* 

 " into a thinish ointment with the chemical 

 " oils of lavender, anniseed, and camomile, 

 " and keep it in a narrow mouthed, and well 

 " glazed gallipot, covered with a bladder 

 '* and leather, and it will keep two years. 

 " When you waat to use it, put some into a 

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