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FOREST AND STREAM. 
[Feb. 23, 1907. 
Mullins “Get There” VSX.VUSi 
Unequaled for use in very shallow water or through tangled grass 
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Length 14 ft., beam 36 in. Painted dead grass color. Price $22.00. 
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JAMES SAUNDERS AND SILKWORM j 
GUT. 
I have been searching for some time among 
such old angling writers as I have had an op- [ 
portunity of consulting for early references to 
silkworm gut which might give some clue as 
to when it was first used in England. The other 
day I came upon a little book entitled “The 
Complete Fisherman,” written by James I 
Saunders, Esq., “of Newton Awbery, upon the [ 
river Trent.” and published in 1724. The vol- | 
time treats briefly of sea fishing and the fishing i 
industry as well of fresh-water angling, and it : 
foreshadows the popularity of angling in the | 
■sea: “there are great numbers of people also 
who divert themselves with angling for fish out \ 
of the sea, if I may call it so where they use 
no rod.” He then proceeds to describe a 
method of fishing very similar to modern shore 
fishing on the east coast, except that hand-lines 
were employed and a great number of hooks 
“This sport,” he says, “I have seen more par 
ticularly followed upon the coast of Suffolk and 
Norfolk,” so the present method is evidently a 
development of the old one. 
This, however, is, by the way, for there is noj 
indication that silkworm gut played any part in 
the primitive equipment of the English sea 
angler. The reference to this material comes on 
a later page after a statement that “the Swiss 
and the Millanese, and the inhabitants of the 
more mountainous parts of Italy, are esteemed 
the greatest artists at trout fishing, perhaps in 
the world.” After hazarding the opinion that 
this great skill in trout fishing comes from an 
abundance of trout streams on which they may 
ply their art, he comes to silkworm gut as; 
follows: 
“These, they tell us, make a fine and exceed¬ 
ing strong hair or line, resembling a single hair, 
which is drawn from the bowels of the silk¬ 
worms, the glutinous substance of which is such 
that like the cat’s gut which makes strings for 
the violin of an unaccountable strength, -so this! 
will be so strong, as nothing of so small a size 
can equal it in nature; for it is rather smaller | 
than the single hair ordinarily used in fishing I 
and strong as the catgut itself, so that with these 
lines they secure the strongest fish in those 
rivers, where they have some trouts also very 
large as well as other fish.” 
He goes on to say that he has seen an imi- 
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SPAR COATING 
is used by those yacht builders who have a reputa¬ 
tion they intend to keep. The most expensive var¬ 
nish is the varnish that does not last long and leaves 
the boat unprotected The cheapest, because it is 
the best, is Edward Smith & Co’s Spar Coating—it 
was used on the International yacht cup winners— 
on the “Queen,” the “Vim,” etc., etc. Its initial 
cost may be a little more than some, but in the long 
run it is by far the most economical. 
EDWARD SMITH ®. COMPANY 
59 Market Street 45 Broadway 
Chicago New York 
