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HOOKS. 



right amount of twist ; too much should not be used, or the 

 material will be so punished as to break with a very small strain. 

 If Shrewsbury thread cannot be obtained, shoe-thread, or the 

 sort called whitey-brown, will answer, but not so well as the 

 first named, as they do not possess that amount of stiffness 

 which is so desirable in all snoodings to prevent entanglement, 



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FIG. 60. Whipping and Bending on Hooks. 



to which limp snoodings when wet are particularly liable. 

 Snooding can be made in six-feet lengths also, either with the 

 twisting-machine or by the nossil-cock,or fisherman's spinner 

 (fig. 66, described at p. 216), still very much in use at fishing 

 villages along the coast. 



In making these longer snoodings or, as they are pro- 

 vincially named, nossilstwo persons are necessary, as the 



