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impossible for a trout to escape being hooked. This minnow, 
which is made both of brass and white metal, is hexagonal or 
octagonal in form, the object being that the sides and angles 
catching the light may gain additional glitter and brilliancy. 
One side is coloured a bright metallic green to represent the 
minnow’s back, the other half representing, of course, the 
belly. 
The minnow itself can be so adjusted that the trace and 
tail hooks will either spin with it, or remain stationary and 
allow the minnow to spin by itself. Each alternative presents 
some advantages, but in the former case the gut must be 
thickened by lapping where it passes through the minnow, so 
as to fit close. 
FIG 1. FIG. 2, FIG. 3. 
THE ‘QUILL FARLOW'S DEVON HARDY'S EXCELSIOR 
MINNOW.’ MINNOW. SPINNER, 
A pretty minnow for bright water is made by Messrs. Foster, 
of Ashbourne, entirely of solid mother of pearl, and painted 
to imitate the natural. Messrs. Cummings, of Bishop Auckland, 
make a quill minnow (fig. 1), the invention, I am told, of the 
