To make a Reel-line. 47 



LINES, HOW TO MAKE AND THROW PROPERLY. 



To make a Reel-line. 



" Come live with me and be my love, 

 And we will some new pleasures prove, 

 Of golden sands and crystal brooks, 

 With silken lines and silver hooks." 



DOCTOR DONNE. 



ROCURE three quills and cut off the feather 

 part evenly, as if you were going to make 

 three popguns, and fit three wooden plugs 

 into them about a couple of inches long. 

 Next have some horse-hairs selected of any colour you 

 prefer, but the colour is immaterial. Be careful to select 

 four or five good round ones for the thinner end of your 

 line, which you are to make first, in this way : Tie five 

 hairs together at one end, insert two each through two of 

 the quills, and one through the third, and fasten the plugs 

 when the quills are about four inches from the knot, the 

 loose ends coming out past the plugs. Then commence 

 spinning in this way lay the three quills side by side, 

 the plugs up between your left finger and thumb, and twirl 

 or twist them round all at once with your right finger 

 and thumb, every now and then righting the loose hairs 

 at the top. Twist on until the line is made up to the 

 quills ; loosen the plugs and draw up a few inches more ; 

 fasten them, and twist again, until the line is made up 

 to the quills. We will suppose you have now got nearly 

 to the end of the'shortest hair. When you have taken 

 out the plug insert another hair so that you can just see its 

 end through the opposite end of the quill, then put in the 

 plug which will fasten it, and twist again until it is platted 



