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and, as is so commonly the case with technical terms 

 used in connection with fishing gear, no help can be 

 given by the fishermen as to its meaning or derivation. 

 The manner in which the line is worked by moving it 

 gently up and down points strongly, however, to 

 " dandle " as the real name ; and " dandle-line " is not 

 improbably the correct reading, if, as we believe to be 

 the case, the word have the same signification in 

 England and Scotland. 



