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soon as the pages containing their original patterns were 

 published 1885, I think. It was really, however, a new 

 principle, rather than a new pattern, that was wanted ; and I 

 only discovered what I was in search of after a wearisome 

 succession of 'modified successes,' and an accumulation of 

 abortive 'notions,' taking form in all unimaginable shapes of 

 twisted and contorted steel. However, at last I did discover 

 it, and having committed the folly of 'publishing' my old turn- 

 down eyed hook before getting it protected, I took the new 

 one straight away to the Patent Office, and subsequently put 

 the model into the hands of Messrs. Wm. Bartleet & Sons, of 

 Abbey Mills, Redditch, who soon turned out a sufficient quan- 

 tity to try practical conclusions with, the results of practice 

 fully bearing out the deductions of theory. 



The principle embodied in the new hooks is, in effect, the 

 bending of the shank-end first up and then down, the result 

 of which is to bring the line exactly into a plane with the hook- 



NEW (PATENTED) SALMON HOOK WITH UP-TURN SHANK 

 AND TURN-DOWN EYE. 



shank, whilst at the same time retaining all the advantages, in 

 neatness and facility of attachment, &c., of the original turn- 

 down eye, together ivith the full natural gape of the hook 

 bend and no more. ( Vide illustrations of Trout hooks, 

 p. 21.) 



The new patent I have only hitherto had applied to my 

 own special bends of hooks the ' Pennell-Limerick ' and 

 'Pennell-Sneck' bends (pages n, 21, 22); but it is, of course, 



