Leaders. ill 



The following process, taken from Chitty by Norris, 

 was originally derived by me from the latter's most ex- 

 cellent book, " The American Angler." I do not quote, 

 but give the process as I use it. 



In a pint and a half of cold water put one drachm of 

 ground logwood and six grains of powdered copperas. 

 Boil for about five or six minutes, or until a piece of 

 writing-paper immersed therein is promptly colored. 

 Then remove the pot from the fire, and as soon as the 

 liquid becomes quiescent put in the gut, tied to a little 

 stick or a wire so that it may be lifted and examined 

 from time to time. With watch in hand, give it two 

 to three minutes, according to its thickness, and then 

 inspect the result. If not dyed sufficiently, replace it for 

 another half -minute ; and so on till the required shade is 

 obtained. Then wash well in cold water, and the process 

 is complete. 



This will dye one hank of gut. Then it should be 

 thrown away, and a fresh decoction made if more gut 

 is to be colored ; for the dye becomes more and more 

 feeble with use, and a more and more protracted expos- 

 ure to the heated liquid is therefore required. Though 

 the copperas itself impairs the gut to a certain degree, 

 still this appears to be of small moment when compared 

 to the injury done by long continued immersion in the 

 almost boiling liquid. Indeed it seems to make the dif- 

 ference between a loss of fifteen and possibly fifty per 

 cent., as before intimated. The color thus obtained is a 

 dull neutral tint. 



Different samples of logwood vary greatly in the 

 amount of extractive color they contain. This may be 

 tested with a slip of writing-paper, as before intimated. 

 If failure is encountered it will be from this cause, and 



