A GLUE FOR ANGLING-RODS, 8CC. 93 



Use not a small hook for gieat baits, nor a 

 large one for small ones: — Barbels and chubs 

 must have large ones, but perches, tenches, breams, 

 and eds, much smaller. Trouts in clear waters, 

 grai/lings, salmon-smelts, roach andt/ace, ruffs and 

 gudgeons, must have small hooks: and, though 

 many angle for trouts with large hooks in thick 

 waters, yet small ones are the best. Experience 

 will point out the inconvenience of large hooks. 

 The noble salmon alone must have a laroe one. 



A GLUE FOR ANGLING-RODS. 



Pour some water on some quick-lime, until 

 the ebullition ceases, then pour the water from 

 it, and boil your glue very gently with this water 

 and it will make a very good glue. 



A RECEIPT THAT RENDERS LEATHER MORE 

 CAPABLE TO KEEP OUT WET. 



As dry feet are very necessary to health, I 

 have copied an excellent receipt for the angler's 

 use, that will prevent his boots or shoes letting 

 in water. Take a pint of hnseed-oil, with half a 

 pound of mutton suet, six or eight ounces of 

 bees-wax, and halfpenny worth of rosin; boil all 

 these' in a pipkin logetlier, and then let it cool 

 till it be lukewarm; take a little hair brush, and 

 lay it on your boots; but it is much better to be 

 laid on the leather before the boots are made, and 

 brushed with it once over when they are; as 

 ibr your old boots or shoes, you must brush 

 them with it when they are dry. As I am now 

 acting the part of physician, let me advise you, 

 wlienever you are out in the heat of summer, 

 fishing, and arc thirsty, never to drink water, as 

 the consequences arising from such au indescre- 



