Chap. a. rhe APPARATUS. ^^ 

 7hen let fome Pole their fetter" d Bodies hear^ 

 Andlongpreferve them with the tttmoft Care. 

 Nor when you fit them for your Sport and Ufe, 

 Slight Rules of Art, or any Pains refufe : 

 Joint fx'd on Joint, look with attentive EyeSy 

 ^he taper Rod Jhould in proportion rife. 



CHAP. IL 

 Of LINES. 



I Come now to the Preparation of Lines, in 

 which the following Rules are to be ob- 

 ferved. Seledl not your Hair from lean or 

 difeafed Beafts, much lefs from thofe that are 

 dead; but from a Stone-horfe, that is fat, 

 firong, and luily, of four or five Years old, 

 and, if poflible, at the very Time of his cover- 

 ing a Mare. That which grows from the in- 

 moftand middle Part of his Dock, and fo ex- 

 tends downwards to the Ground, is common- 

 ly the biggefl and flrongefl Hair about the 

 Horfe, and better than that upon the upper 

 Part of the Tail. Generally the beft Horfes 

 have the beft Hair. 



Hair of a Sorrel, Chefnut, or Brown 

 Colour, are beft for Ground Angle, efpe- 

 cially in muddy Water, they being not 

 only the Colour of the Gravel or Sand, 

 but of the Water itfelf. The white and grey, 

 or duskifh white Hair, is for clear Rivers and 

 Waters. Your Hair thus fuited is not dif- 

 cernable by the Filh, and confequently will 



not 



