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dently a kind of small vice which is to press or to 

 hold an article tightly, will suggest a more clear 

 and simple, and probably a more correct, idea of the 

 verb " to clem," than is to be found in Nares's Glos- 

 sary, where it is explained as meaning " to starve ;" 

 the cause for the consequence. The effect of short 

 rations being a rigid contraction of the abdominal 

 viscera, as if pressed in a clam. The directions for 

 making the hooks, as they are unlikely at the present 

 day to afford either profit or pleasure, are not 

 worth extracting. It may not, however, be unin- 

 teresting to the reader to know of what materials 

 the hooks were to be made. " For smalle fysshe 

 ye shall make your hokes of the smallest quarell 

 [cornered, from carreau\ nedlys that ye can fynde 



of stele And greeter hookes ye shall make 



in the same wyse of gretter nedlis as broderers 

 nedlis, or taylers or shomakers nedlis spere 

 points, and of shomakers nalles in especyall the 

 beste for grete fysshe." That some idea may be 

 formed of such home-made articles " thyse fygures 

 are put here in ensample of your hokes/' 



