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any way their excellent work; still less to exalt my own small 

 efforts at their expense. Indeed, as I have before said, it is 

 want of space simply, and not want of courtesy, which pre- 

 cludes my attempting, within the limits at my disposal, to 

 pourtray and describe their several ingenious plans the pro- 

 genitors, so to speak, of my own system and especially the 

 turn-up eye hook of my friend Mr. H. S. Hall, which is 

 still used by many good fly-fishers, whose enthusiasm carries 

 them triumphantly over all defects, or what I regard as 

 defects. ... I have, nevertheless, a plain task set before me, 

 of which I must acquit myself in a plain businesslike way. 

 What I have to say and without the saying of which this 

 chapter would have no raison d^tre is that in my opinion 

 all these systems of eyed hooks are defective, and that their 

 defects have proved a bar to their general adoption ; whereas, 

 on the other hand, I believe that the system which I have 

 presented for judgment to the parliament of anglers has 910 

 defects, but is a thoroughly workable and practical system 

 complete in all its details, and for that reason must eventually 

 force its way to universal acceptance. 



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I have entrusted the manufacture of all my patent and other hooks to 

 Messrs. Wm. Bartleet & Sons, the well-known hook-making firm at Redditch, 

 who have for several years acted as my wholesale agents, and whose success 

 in manufacturing the various patterns leaves nothing to be desired. If the 

 hooks are not 'genuine,' I cannot, of course, hold myself responsible for any 

 failures or defects. (See also p. 10. ) 



