HOW TO KNOT LINKS TOGETHER. 



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make a hole about the thickness of the small end of a tobacco- 

 pipe stem to pour in the lead. 



Make also a small furrow lengthways through the mould, 

 and place in it a piece of wire well greased, an eighth of an inch 

 in thickness. You can now pass a few turns of twine round the 

 pieces of freestone, to keep them together, and cast your first 

 lead, and if your work be true, your best plan will be to drill 

 four holes for the insertion of pegs, to hold the pieces in their 

 places. Half-ounce and ounce leads are useful sizes. The 

 pear or fig-shaped plummets for Mackerel-fishing may be made 

 in this manner also ; but still a better plan, if you intend to 

 follow sea-fishing much, is to get these moulds made in iron by 

 an iron-founder, and keep them by you. 



In Guernsey, as there is a constant demand for these kinds 

 of leads, they are kept on hand by the plumbers. 



To Knot the Links together. Take two links of a different 

 twist, unlay an inch and a quarter of the ends, drawing them 



FIG. 24. Knotting hair links. 



through your teeth to flatten out the whole of the twist in order 

 that they may make a snug knot. Place them in the left hand 

 overlapping each other six inches, as shown in fig. 24, a, and turn 

 each end twice round the fore-finger and the other link, as 

 shown loosely at b ; then put the end through and tighten the 



