CHAP. XVII. THE COMPLETE ANGLER. ' 301 



you must store yourself; and to that 



purpose, I will go with you either 7 bays btarj, tiat tb* 



. * r ~* r 1111 A tdcklin<r htith ocn t>rizc 



to Mr. Margrave, who dwell savnongst at r ftoUH j f intbt 



the booksellers in St. Paul's Church- inventory ofanangUr* 



yard ; or to Mr. John Stubs, near to 



the Swan in Golden lane ; they be both honest men, 



and will fit an angler with what tackling he lacks*. 



Ven. Then, good master ! let it be at -, 



for he is nearest to my dwelling. And, I pray, let's 



wax, very thin, on each slope ; and, with waxed thread or silk, according 

 as the size of the broken part requires, bind them very neatly together; 

 To fasten off, lay the fore-finger of your left hand over the binding, and 

 with your right, make four turns of the thread over it ; then pass the end 

 of your thread, between the under-side of your finger and the rod, and 

 draw your finger away ; lastly, with the fore-finger, and thumb, of your 

 right hand, take hold of the first of the turns, and, gathering as much of it 

 as you can, bind-on till the three remaining turns are wound off, and 

 then take hold of the end, which you had before put through, and then 

 draw close. See the work, Plate XII. Fig. 1,2. 



For -whipping on a hook, take the following directions : Place the hook 

 betwixt the fore-finger and thumb of your left hand, and, with your right, 

 give the waxed silk three or four turns round the shank of the hook : 

 then, lay the end of the hair on the inside of the shank, and, with your 

 right hand, whip down, as in Fig. 3. Plate XII. ; when you are withim 

 about four turns of the bent of the hook, take the shank between the 

 fore-finger, and thumb, of your left hand, and place the end of the silk 

 close by it ; holding them both tight, and leaving the end to hang down ; 

 then draw the other part of the silk into a large loop ; and, with your 

 right hand turning back wards as in Fig. 4. Plate XI I. continue the whipping 

 for four turns, and draw the end of the silk, (which has, all this while, 

 hung down under the root of your left thumb,) close, and twitch it off. 



To tie a "water-knot, lay the end of one of your hairs, about five inches 

 r less, over that of the other; and through the loop, (which you would 

 make, to tie them, in the common way,) pass the long, and the short, end 

 of the haire which will lie to the right of the loop, twice ; and, wotting 

 the knot with your tongue, draw it close ; and cut off the spare hair. See 

 Fig. 5. Plate XII. 



* In some former editions of this book, the author has, in this place, 

 mentioned Charles Kirky as a maker of excellent hooks : of whom take th 

 following account : He was famous for the neatness, and form of his hooks; 

 when, being introduced to prince Rupert, whose name frequently occurs 

 in the history of king Charles the First's reign, the prince communicated 

 to him a method of tempering them, which has been continued in the fa- 

 mily to this time; there being a lineal descendant of th$ above-named 

 Charles Kirby now [1760] living in Crowther's- well-alley, near Alders- 

 gate-street, whose hooks, for their shape and temper, exceed all others, 

 This story is the more likely to be true; as it is well known, that the 

 German nobility, in the last century, were much addicted to chemistry, 

 and, that to this prince Rupert the world is indebted for the invention of 

 craping in mezzotinto. See a head of his scraping in Evelyn's Stulpt*r<t, 



