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as in the horns of sheep or deer ; or some of dead flesh, as 

 the maggot or gentle, 1 and others. 



Now these be most of them particularly good for particular 

 fishes. But for the trout the dew-worm, which some also 

 call the lob-worm, and the brandling, 2 are the chief, and 

 especially the first for a great trout ; and the latter for a 

 less. There be also, of lob-worms, some called squirrel-tails ; 

 a worm that has a red head, a streak down the back, and a 

 broad tail ; which are noted to be the best, because they are 

 the toughest and most lively, and live longest in the water 

 for you are to know that a dead worm is but a dead bait, 

 and like to catch nothing, compared to a lively quick 

 stirring worm. And for a brandling : he is usually found in 

 an old dunghill, or some very rotten place near to it but 

 most usually in cow- dung, or hog's- dung, rather than horse- 

 dung which is somewhat too hot and dry for that worm. 

 But the best of them are to be found in the bark of the 

 tanners ; which they cast up in heaps, after they have used 

 it about their leather. 



There are also divers other kinds of worms, which, for 

 colour and shape, alter even as the ground out of which they 

 are got ; as the marsh-worm, the tag-tail, the flag-worm, the 

 dock-worm, the oak-worm, the gilt-tail, the twachel or lob- 

 worm, 3 which of all others is the most excellent bait for a 



1 Gentles may "be procured from a sheep's liver exposed to the sun for 

 several days, and so hung up that the gentles may drop into a pan of saw- 

 dust placed beneath. They should then be kept in dry sand and bran 

 mixed, where they may be cool, or they will turn into the chrysalis state. 

 They are most useful in spring, and may be carried to the water in a box, 

 of wood y not tin. H. 



2 You fish in this way as with a fly at top- water, casting your worm 

 gently up against the stream. 'Tis an excellent method and Mils in- 

 credibly. A caddis is likewise a sure killing bait, fished with quite at 

 ground. BROWNE. 



3 To avoid confusion, it may be necessary to remark, that the same kind 

 of worm is, in different places, known by different names : thus the marsh 

 and the meadow-worm are the same (found in meadows under cow-dung) ; 

 the lob-worm, twachel, or dew-worm, is our common garden-worm ; and 

 the dock-worm is, in some places, called the flag-worm. The tag-tail 

 (which is bright red and very lively) is found in March and April, in 

 marled lands, or meadows, after a shower of rain ; or in a morning, 

 when the weather is calm, and not cold. To find the oak- worm, beat on 

 an oak-tree that grows over a highway, or bare place ; and they win fall 

 for you to gather. To find the dock- worm, go to an old pond, or pit, and 



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