The North Country Angler. \ \ 



When you fish with silk- worm-gut, let it be 

 a yard long, though of two pieces, the smallest 

 next the hook, and a plait of four good hairs 

 at the top of it ; from the small end of which 

 plait you may have a drop fly, which will make 

 the whole link above a yard and a half long ; 

 the small end of your line for such a link, 

 should be six small hairs, engine-twisted ; and 

 you must remember, that the stronger your 

 tackle, the line should be the shorter, or your 

 rod the longer. These lines and links are more 

 particularly for fly fishing, yet the finest may be 

 used for brandling, grub, &c. in clear streams. 



I saw, in London, a large dappled grey horse, 

 which, I was told, the owner, a brewer, valued 

 at an hundred and fifty guineas. I consulted 

 with my landlord, who dealt largely with him, 

 how to get some hairs out of his tail, which was 

 the finest and longest I ever saw. The drayman 

 loved drink; a bribe will do wonders ! 1 had 

 above two hundred brought me for two shillings 

 and a pot of beer : I would not have taken six- 

 pence for the worst of them; though 1 gave half 

 of them among my brother anglers in the North : 

 and my kind landlord procured me, by the same 

 means, two little links, of one hundred each, the 

 year following. 



