64 MENDING A BROKEN -OINT. 



of finishing when you have arrived at the fastening 

 point, is to make two or three half hitch knots; this 

 is done by passing the end under one turn of the silk, 

 making a loop, and drawing it down. The hidden 

 knot is the better and most secure mode. 



To REPAIR A BROKEN JOINT. Should you be so 

 unfortunate as to break a top or joint, which misfor- 

 tune, brother angler, has happened to many a very 

 careful and scientific sportsman before you proceed 

 in this manner. Take your two broken parts, and 

 with your knife, or a plane if you can get one, smooth 

 down each part in an oblique direction, fitting them 

 closely together, and rubbing some shoemaker's wax 

 on to the parts to make them stick ; now take a long 

 length of waxed thread or silk and wind it around, 

 similar to the commencement of hook-tying, merely 

 to keep the parts together, continuing it a little be- 

 yond the extreme end of the fracture ; then carefully 

 and firmly whip it evenly around until you pass the 

 other end of the fracture; here halt, and wind the 

 three last turns on the forefinger of the left hand, 

 extended for that purpose ; now pass the end of the 

 silk or thread under the windings, carefully drawing 

 out your finger, and pull it through, and you have 

 the hidden or inverted knot, as before described. Be 

 careful in finishing, see that your thread does not get 

 loose, and your whippings are firm and even. In all 

 cases of winding, see that your silk is well waxed. 



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