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the foregoing cut a, is with well-waxed silk or thread, 

 binding the hook-wire and trace firmly and neatly 

 together, and then finishing off by passing the end of 

 the lashing back under three or four turns of itself, 

 vide cut B, and then drawing it tightly home. The 

 other plan is by half hitches^ two or three of which are 

 turned over the shaft of the hook below the flattened 

 end usually made to sea-hooks ; wdien dra^vn tight the 

 turns of line may be pressed up compactly together with 

 the thumb nail. The accompanying cut c will better 



explain the mode of putting on the hitches than woidd 

 any written description. Both traces and lines should 

 have loops made in the ends ; these, when run to- 

 gether by what is called the loop slip, shown in the 

 above illustration, make a very neat and secure 



fastening. Stones are conveniently fastened on as 

 sinkers to lines mounted with many hooks ; by the 

 plan shown in the above cut, no knots are made, and 



