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ing two or three nooses, covering the top 

 of the hooks with your silk and wax, make a 

 loop on the length of gut, without a knot, 

 wrapping it neatly and as fast as you can : 

 you must also have a small lead made in the 

 shape of an egg, with a hole through it, it 

 must be no larger than the minnow's mouth 

 will contain ; when you bait, take a middle- 

 sized minnow, put the loop of the gut through 

 the eye of a large darning needle, then put 

 the needle in at the vent, and as even as you 

 can out of the mouth of the minnow ; after- 

 wards run your lead down the link of gut,, 

 putting it neatly into the minnow's mouth ; 

 thread your needle again, put it through the 

 under and upper lip, and draw the gut up 

 tight, the lead will be sewed up, and not to 

 be seen ; have a large loop at the end of 

 your swivel-line, which should be two yards 

 long, that will admit of the minnow going 

 through every time you bait ; or you may 

 have a fine spring swivel to hang it on, the 

 same as for Pike, which will be the least 

 trouble. When you fish this way, throw the 



