PREFACE 5 



in all pertaining to fishing was, however, the 

 lesson drilled into me from my earliest years, 

 and at an infant's age I first began to handle 

 tackle and tackle-making implements. From ex- 

 perience, therefore, I am satisfied that the boy 

 who learns to prepare everything he uses will 

 (as I have done) derive tenfold the pleasure from 

 fishing, that is gotten by the angler who only 

 buys his tackle all ready to his hand. The things 

 that cost pains to procure are the most valued. 

 In the following pages I shall explain the why 

 and wherefore of everything likely to perplex the 

 tyro, as well as the making of each piece of 

 tackling, giving the methods I have myself made 

 use of, with suitable diagrams. Moreover, I shall 

 be pleased at any time to aid my boy-readers by 

 letter, if they write me to my address below. 



J. Harrington Keene. 



Greenwich, Washington County, N.Y. 



