68 LOOPS. 



I laughed to find him using, not only scissors, 

 but hand-vices and all thoroughly convinced ! 

 Pull out that looping-wire, bent at right angles, 

 the remnant of an old baiting-needle. 



Fig. l. 



The short leg is fixed in a hole in the table, or 

 a table-screw made on purpose, and I use it 

 in waxing silk, for looping, and many like 

 purposes ; which, as it has a natural spring, 

 lessens the chances of breaking silk while 

 waxing. And, for fear of injuring gut while 

 looping it, I have whipped the hooped end over 

 with fine silk. To repair loops and breakages of 

 that sort at the water side, here is another steel 

 looping machine, 



Fig. 2. 



3) 



which, when sitting on the grass, you can, by its 

 sharp-pointed recurved end A, hook on to the 

 knee of your trousers, or the rings of the rod, or 

 the reel, and loop away as pleasantly as in your 

 " sanctum" at home. Now for the operation of 

 waxing with the stick ; fix one well-waxed end 

 of the silk by a turn, thus 



Fig. 3. 



