228 PIKE AND OTHER COARSE FISH. 



in the daytime. The following recipe was given me by a 

 gentleman of my acquaintance last year in Scotland. Though 

 I have not tried it, I have no doubt his prescription is good. 



' Mix a little mustard in warm water and with a jug pour it into 

 the worm holes along the sides of the gravel walks or carriage 

 drives, and the worms come bolting out like rabbits.' 



A decoction of walnut leaf water poured on the ground, has 

 been recommended as a prescription for bringing them to the 

 surface, nolens volens, for the last two hundred years, or at any 

 rate since the time of Chetham, who, in the secdnd edition 

 of his 'Angler's Vade Mecum' (temp. 1689) says : 'In great 

 droughts pound walnut leave?, and put the juice thereof mixed 

 with a little water into their (the worms') holes, and it drives 

 them out of the ground.' 



Another author, 'R. H.,' in the 'Angler's Sure Guide' 

 (1706), quoted by Mr. Alexander D. Campbell, treats on the 

 subject at still greater length : 



There are divers other ways of getting these worms, as by 

 bruising . green hemp, or walnut-tree leaves, or the green husks, 

 the blades of leeks or onions, and laying them to soak, or boiling 

 them in water, and after they have been soaked twelve or fourteen 

 hours, or boiled an hour or two, pour the water on the ground in' 

 places where you see many worm castings, or into the worm holes ; 

 or by mixing soot and water, or salt and water, and throwing it on 

 such places, &c. But I use none of these last ways, but only in 

 case of necessity, because it hurts the worms, and makes them sick 

 and many of them to die. 



I have much pleasure in placing any or all of these recipes 

 at the disposal of the National Fish Culture Association, whose 

 energetic secretary lately advertised, I see, for ' tenders ' for a 

 worm contract, for the benefit of the fish in the South Kensing, 

 ton Aquarium. 



In baiting with a whole lob- worm, dip the finger and thumb 

 of the left hand in dry sand, then take the worm between the 

 two and insert the point of the hook either exactly at the point 

 of the head or just below it as desired, threading it, as it were; 



