68 LOOPS. 



I laughed to find him using, not only scissors, 

 but hand-vices and all — thoroughly convinced ! 

 Pull out that looping-wire, bent at right angles, 

 the remnant of an old baiting-needle. 



Fig. 1. 



The short leg is fixed in a hole in the table, or 

 a table-screw made on purpose, and I use it 

 in waxing silk, for looping, and many like 

 purposes ; which, as it has a natural spring, 

 lessens the chances of breaking silk while 

 waxing. And, for fear of injuring gut while 

 looping it, I have whipped the hooped end over 

 with fine silk. To repair loops and breakages of 

 that sort at the water side, here is another steel 

 looping machine. 



Fig. 2. 



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which, when sitting on the grass, you can, by its 

 sharp-pointed recurved end a, hook on to the 

 knee of your trousers, or the rings of the rod, or 

 the reel, and loop away as pleasantly as in your 

 " sanctum" at home. Now for the operation of 

 waxing with the stick ; fix one well-waxed end 

 of the silk by a turn, thus 



Fig. 3. 



