

CHAPTER XXI. 



DIRECTIONS FOR MAKING OF A LINE, AND FOR THE 

 COLOURING OF BOTH ROD AND LINE. 



[liftlr (last) gag.] 



PlSC. Well, scholar, I have held you too long about these 

 caddis, and smaller fish, and rivers, and fish-ponds ; and my 

 spirits are almost spent, and so I doubt is your patience : 

 but being we are now almost at Tottenham, where I first 

 met you, and where we are to part, I will lose no time, but 

 give you a little direction how to make and order your lines, 

 and to colour the hair of which you make your lines, for that 

 is very needful to be known of an angler ; and also how to 

 paint your rod, especially your top ; for a right grown top 

 is a choice commodity, and should be preserved from the 

 water soaking into it, which makes it in wet weather to be 

 heavy and fish ill-favouredly, and not true ; and also it rots 

 quickly for want of painting ; and I think a good top is 

 worth preserving, or I had not taken care to keep a top 

 )bove twenty years. 



But first for your line. First, note, that you are to take 



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