1 8 The Hook. 



For minnows . . . I hair. 

 For small roach, bleak, 



gudgeon, and ruffe . 2 hairs. 

 For dace and large 



roach 3 hairs. 



For the perch, flounder, 



and small bream, or 



"bremet," as it is 



here called .... 4 hairs. 

 For the chub, bream, 



tench, eel . ... 6 hairs. 

 For the trout, grayling, 



barbel, and great 



chub 9 hairs. 



For the great trout, with 1 2 hairs. 

 For the salmon, with . 16 hairs. 

 And for the pike . . with a chalk line, 

 armed with a 

 wire at the end. 



The Hook. 



Dame Juliana gives detailed instructions 

 in the manufacture of hooks, and the 

 coarse illustrations in the Treatyse are 

 again a libel on the text ; for she recom- 

 mends for small fish that the hooks should 

 be made of the finest steel needles you 

 can find; those for larger fish of larger 

 needles, such as those used by embroi- 

 derers, tailors, and shoemakers. She men- 

 tions the spear-pointed shoemaker's needle, 

 perhaps thus anticipating by four centuries 

 the bayonet-pointed hooks and gaffs for 



