78 SEA FISH; 



taken, they should be washed perfectly clean, and put 

 to keep in a flat, shallow box, with its bottom and 

 sides covered with pitch, which should be melted into 

 all the corners and joints with a hot iron. A little 

 clean sea water should be added every day, and all 

 the dirt carefully taken out with the dirty water, and 

 any dead or broken worms which may be found. Put 

 the box in a cool cellar, or other convenient place, and 

 the worms may in this way be kept for a long time. 

 It is always well to have a small- sized box, also lined 

 with pitch, with a slide cover like a puzzle-box, in 

 which to take a supply out for fishing, allowing the 

 surplus, if any, to remain at home in the larger box. 



Lug worms are often used as a bait for hand lines 

 and bolters, and are obtained by digging with a spade 

 in the sand at low water, where the sand-heaps show 

 their workings. 



Earth worms are too well known to require a 

 lengthened notice. They are best kept in wet moss 

 in a large flannel bag. The lob worm, found at night 

 on old land, stretching many inches from their holes, 

 are best for the larger kinds of fish ; and the red worm 

 and large brandling for the smaller. 



The Loach. 



FAM., Colitis barbatula. 



Although strictly an inhabitant of fresh water, it 

 well merits mention and favourable consideration, as it 



