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118 SUPPLEMENT TO THE BOOK OF THE BLACK BASS. 



at each turn, until four or five turns are made, and then 

 drawing the silk back by its end, through the turns, draw- 

 ing tightly, and clipping off the end closely. It is more 

 easily done than described. 



Another way of making the invisible knot, or rather a 

 different way of doing the same thing, is to lay a doubled 

 thread of finer (unwaxed) silk along the wrapping, its loop 

 being toward the bend of the hook, and include this doubled 

 thread in the last four or five turns around the shank and 

 gut, but not wrapping quite so firmly as before, and then 

 pass the end of the wrapping silk through the loop, by | 

 means of which the wrapping thread is pulled back and out 

 under these last turns, and after drawing snugly and tightly 

 the end is to be closely clipped off. When the wrapping is 

 completed, it is to be well coated with shellac varnish by I 

 means of a camel's hair pencil. 



