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commonly grows tougher, and will better endure baiting ; 

 though he is yet so tender, that it will be necessary to 

 warp-in a piece of a stiff hair with your arming, leaving it 

 standing out about a straw-breadth at the head of your 

 hook, so as to keep the grub either from slipping totally off 

 when baited, or at least down to the point of the hook, by 

 which means your arming will be left wholly naked and 

 bare, which is neither so sightly, nor so likely to be taken : 

 though, to help that, which will, however, very oft fall out, 

 I always arm the hook I design for this bait with the 

 whitest horse-hair I can choose ; which itself will resemble, 

 and shine like that bait, and consequently will do more 

 good, or less harm, than an arming of any other colour. 

 These grubs are to be baited thus : the hook is to be put in 

 under the head or chaps of the bait, and guided down the 

 middle of the belly, without suffering it to peep out by the 

 way (for then, the ash-grub especially, will issue out water 

 and milk, till nothing but the skin shall remain, and the 

 bend of the hook will appear black through it) till the point 

 of your hook come so low, that the head of your bait may 

 rest, and stick upon the hair that stands out to hold it ; by 

 which means it can neither slip of itself, neither will the 

 force of the stream, nor quick pulling out, upon any mistake, 

 strip it off. 



Now the Cadis, or Cod-bait, which is a sure killing bait, 

 and, for the most part, by much surer than either of the 

 other, may be put upon the hook, two or three together ; 

 and is sometimes, to very great effect, joined to a worm, and 



purpose, particularly the grub of the cockchafer. The brandling is also 

 an excellent bait. K-ENNIE. 



b 



m 



a, grub of the Cockchafer, called the earth bob ; &, the brandling. 



