The Instruments.
First. An holdfast.
Secondly. A hammer to flatten the place or the beard.
Thirdly. A file to make the beard, and sharpen the point.
Fourthly. A bender, viz. a pin bended, and put in the
end of a stick, an handful long, thus.
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When they are made, lap them in the end of a wire; beat
them again, and temper them in oil or butter.
11 [p. 152]: The best form for ready striking and sure holding and strength, is a straight and somewhat long shank and straight nibbed; with a little compass: not round in any
wise,
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for it neither strikes surely nor readily; but is weak, as having too great a compass. Some use to batter the upper end thus {Illustration:} to hold the faster: but good thread or silk, good baud [? band] may make it fast enough. It is botcherly, hinders the biting, and sometimes cuts the line.
12 [p. 152]: He means the hook may be too weak at the point. It cannot be too sharp, if the metal be good steel.
13 [p. 153]: Or wind them on two or three of your fingers, like an Orph-Arion's string.
14 [p. 153]: Worm poke of cloth, or boxes.
15 [p. 153]: A plummet you need not; for your line being well leaded and without a float, will try your depths. When the lead above your hook comes to the earth, the line will leave sinking.
16 [p. 154]: That is good: but a forked rod about two yards long is better. When your hook is fastened in the water,
take a rod thus fashioned
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and put the line in the fork, and so follow down to your hook. So letting your line be somewhat slack, move your fork to and fro, especially downwards; and so shall your hook be loosed.
17 [p. 154]: White and grey are good, answering to the colours of the sky.
18 [p. 167]: The Gudgeon hath his teeth in his throat (as]
