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piece of knitting silk, a small piece of lead about 

 an incli and a quarter long, tapered to an obtuse 

 point at one end, the other rounded off and of the 

 size of a crow's quill. This lip hook should be 

 tied on a piece of gut separate from the trace, in 

 such a manner as to form a very small loop at 

 either end of the splicing of the silk on the hook ; 

 through these loops the trace is passed, so that 

 the lip hook is movable up or down the trace. 

 Next follow in nearly equal distances attached to 

 the trace itself, three triplets, and from the last of 

 them, at a distance of two or three inches, may 

 be appended a fourth triplet. 



The minnow is thus put on : first, open its 

 mouth and thrust down its gullet the lead, and 

 then hook the lip hook through the upper and 

 lower jaw to keep them both closed. Now hitch 

 one of the hooks of the upper triplet by the side 

 of the cheek ; next bend the minnow slightly, so 

 as to make its tail curved, and when in this posi- 

 tion hitch one of the hooks of the third triplet 

 immediately above the tail ; and lastly, stick in 

 the second triplet about the middle of the fish, 

 from the tail of which the end hooks will be 

 freely pendent at a distance of two or three inches. 

 This drawing up of the tail of the minnow by 

 the third triplet, makes it spin. It should not be 

 very much curved ; a very little turn will suffice. 



I like a swivel pretty close to the minnow, and 

 a second at the distance of one or two links of 

 gut from the first. The entire collar need not 

 exceed four or six links of gut in length. The 



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