CHAPTER XL 



FISHING-LINES. 



" I will lose no time, but give you a little direction how to make and order 

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

 very needful to be known of an angler." Iz A AK WALTON. 



No doubt but many of ray readers have often wondered, 

 as I have done, where all the fine fishing-lines were made. 

 Inquiries of the dealers failed to elicit any definite in- 

 formation, only such answers being obtained, as " We make 

 them ourselves," or, " They are manufactured expressly for 

 us," or, "They are imported for our trade." 



There has ever seemed to be some mystery connected 

 with it, though why, I can not imagine. The real manu- 

 facturers are certainly not generally known outside of 

 the trade, and their goods are seldom marked with their 

 own names. I do not remember ever to have seen an ad- 

 vertisement of a fish-line manufacturer. Perhaps it is not 

 necessary, as the angler is supplied through the dealer, and 

 the wholesale dealers are comparatively few. 



Thinking that an account of one of the best manufac- 

 tories of fishing-lines in this country, if not in the world, 

 would not prove uninteresting, I reproduce the following 

 description of the factory of Henry Hall & Sons, at High- 

 land Mills, Orange County, New York, from the New 

 York Times of June 6, 1880 : 

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