CHAP. VII. 



Standards of Sizes of Hooks. 



119 



So, accepting the inevitable, I cannot do better for you than to give 

 you the same scale of uneyed Limericks and of Mahseer trebles, both 

 eyed and tapered, as I gave in my last edition, which I told you was 

 held in common by at least two firms of wholesale hook-makers 

 Messrs. R. Harrison, Bartleet, and Co., Metropolitan Works, Redditch, 

 who gave me my scale for the last edition, and Messrs. William 



EYED 



7APERED 



SCALE OF MAHSEER TREBLES. 



(Eyed and tapered are both made these sizes.) 



Bartleet and Sons, Abbey Mills, Redditch, who are giving me my 

 scale for this edition, as acknowledged in the preface. 



In my last edition the plate of the scale of hooks was necessarily 

 hand-drawn, electro typing not having been introduced in 1881, and 

 though I had the best of draughtsmen, a certain slight modicum of 

 inaccuracy unavoidably crept in; this time there ought to be none, 

 the hooks being reproduced actual size by photography, and electro- 

 typed. 



Of eyed Limerick hooks there are also so many varieties that, 

 growing desperate, I have accepted from Messrs. William Bartleet and 

 Sons the patent Pennell eyed, because it has the recommendation that 

 the eye is formed by the tapered end being " returned," as it is called, 

 down the shank, instead of being abruptly finished off at the eye in a 

 way that might, it is supposed, fray the gut. Only the larger sizes 

 figured have the eye thus returned, and they are made of stouter wire 



