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considerable time, even until they assume the imago 

 state, in pasteboard or wooden boxes, with perforated 

 lids, provided they are fed daily with the leaves of 

 the plant they are obtained from. And they may be 

 conveniently carried for use, in either a tin or wood 

 bait-box, with a perforated cover. 



Wasp-grubs, as well as those of both the wild and 

 domestic bees, are capital baits in fine waters. They 

 may be obtained after stifling the wasps with brimstone 

 or a gunpowder squib, and preserved in the honey- 

 comb till wanted for use. In order to toughen them, 

 they should either, while in their cells, be put into a 

 warm oven after done baking, or be placed on a tile, 

 fire-shovel, or cheese-toaster, before the fire ; or other- 

 wise be immersed for three or four minutes in boiling 

 milk. Any of the above methods will toughen them 

 considerably, and cause them to stick well on the hook : 

 the latter plan being perhaps the best. They must be 

 applied to a fine fly-hook armed with bristle the same 

 as maggots. 



The Common White Slug of our gardens is an entic- 

 ing bait for large trout, and we will seldom examine the 

 stomach of one after a freshet in the river, without seeing 

 the remains of one or more in a half-digested state. 

 They may easily be obtained by scattering a few cabbage 

 leaved, greased on the under surface, over the borders in 

 the garden, where they are plentiful ; or sprinkled over 

 with a solution of common salt, lime-water, or soda, 

 which will detain them under the leaves till taken up. 

 They may be preserved till wanted, in a box or earthen 



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