36 ANGLING. 



lime and water for four or five hours, and then 

 allowing it to soak for a day in a tan-pit. In the 

 absence of other ingredients, both gut and hair may 

 be easily stained by being left for twenty-four hours 

 in strong tea, either with or without a few logwood 

 scrapings. In the former case you had better not 

 drink the tea. 



The hair to be dyed ought to be selected from 

 the best white. Silken or hempen lines may be 

 tinted by a decoction of oak bark, which is said to 

 udd to the durability of these materials. 



We shall speak of flies, both small and great, 

 when we come to treat in more detail of trout and 

 salmon. But we may here observe that the rich 

 and varied supply of all kinds of tackle, which may 

 be obtained in the shops of the principal dealers in 

 our larger cities, induces us to abstain from extended 

 descriptions of the angler's gear, especially of the 

 different hooks employed in minnow and other bait- 

 fishing, as such details are not very intelligible 

 without the aid of numerous engravings. More 

 knowledge will be gained by a few minutes' inspec- 

 tion of the articles themselves in the hands of an 

 intelligent workman, than can be conveyed by the 

 most elaborate treatise on the subject. 



