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NATURAL HISTORY. 
instead of butter. 3. Crumbs of bread chewed or worked 
widi honey or sugar, moistened with gum-ivy water. 
4. Bread chewed, and worked in the hand till stiff'. 
w onus. 1. The earth-bob, found in sandy ground after 
ploughing, is white, with a red head, and bigger than a 
gentle : another is found in heathy ground, with a blue head. 
Keep them in an earthen vessel well covered, and a sufficient 
quantity of the mould they harbour in. They are excellent 
from April to November. 2. Gentles, to be had from putrid 
flesh : let them lie in wheat-bran a few days before used. 
3. Flag-worms, found in the roots of flags ; they are of a 
pale yellow colour, are larger and thinner than a gentle, and 
must be scowered like them. 4. Cowdung-bob, or clap- 
bait, found under cowdung from May to Michaelmas; it is 
like a gentle, but larger. Keep it in its native earth like 
the earth-bob. 5. Cadis worm, or cod-bait, found under 
loose stones in shallow rivers ; they are yellow, bigger than 
a gentle, with a black or blue head, and are in season from 
April to July. Keep them in flannel bags. 6. Lob-worm, 
found in gardens ; it is very large, and has a red head, a 
streak down the back, and a flat broad tail. 7. Marsh- 
worms, found in marshy ground ; keep them in moss ten 
days before you use them : their colour is a blueish red, and 
are a good bail from March to Michaelmas. 8. Brandling 
red-worms or blood-worms found in rotten dung hills and 
tanners bark ; they are small red worms, very good for all 
small fish, have sometimes a yellow tail, and are called tag- 
tail. 
Fish and Insects. 1. Minow. 2. Gudgeon. 3. Roach. 
4. Dace. 5. Smelt. C. Yellow frog. 7. Snail Slit. 8. 
Grasshopper. 
The fly is either natural or artificial, 
I. Natural flies are innumerable. The most usual for 
this purpose are mentioned in the preceding page. 
There are two ways of fishing with natural flies; either 
on the surface of the water, or a little underneath it. 
fn angling for chub, roach, or dace, move not your 
natural fly swiftly, when yon see the fish make at it; but 
rather let it glide freely towards him with the stream ; but 
if it be in a still and slow water, draw the fly slowly side- 
wise by him, which will make him eagerly pursue. 
II. The artificial fly is seldom used but in blustering 
weather, when the waters are so troubled bv the winds, 
that the natural fly cannot be seen, nor rest upon them. 
Of this artificial fly, there are reckoned no less than 
twelve sorts, of which the following are the principal. 
