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soon as the pages containing their original patterns were 

 published — 1885, I think. It was really, however, a new 

 principle, rather than a new pattern, that was wanted ; and I 

 only discovered what I was in search of after a wearisome 

 succession of 'modified successes,' and an accumulation of 

 abortive 'notions,' taking form in all unimaginable shapes of 

 twisted and contorted steel. However, at last I did discover 

 it, and having committed the folly of 'publishing' my old turn- 

 down eyed hook before getting it protected, I took the new 

 one straight away to the Patent Office, and subsequently put 

 the model into the hands of Messrs. Wm. Bartleet & Sons, of 

 Abbey Mills, Redditch, who soon turned out a sufficient quan- 

 tity to try practical conclusions with, the results of practice 

 fully bearing out the deductions of theory. 



The principle embodied in the new hooks is, in effect, the 

 bending of the shank-end first up and then down, into some- 

 thing like two sides, so to speak, of a triangle, of which one 

 side is formed by the hook-eye, and the other by the turned-up 



NEW PATENT SALMON HOOK WITH UP-TURN SHANK 

 AND TURN-DOWN EYE. 



end of the extremity of the hook-shank (see cut). The effect 

 of this is to bring the line exactly ifito a plane ivith the hook- 

 shank, zvhilst at the same time retaining all the advantages, in 

 neatness and facility of attachment, 6^^., of the original titrn- 

 doivn eye, together with the full natural gape of the hook bend— 

 atid no more. 



The new patent I have only hitherto had applied to my 

 own special bends of hooks — the ' Pennell-Limerick ' and 

 ' Pennell-Sneck ' bends (see illustrations) ; but it is, of course, 



