The Popular recreator. A key to in-door and out-door amusements .. (1873)
London, New York [etc.] Cassell, Petter & Galpin · leaf 282
thread itthrough the eye, and draw it out about an inch on the otherside; turn the short end round the shank, and pass itthrough the loop thus formed, as in Fig. 1, and draw the knotclose. ■ Then pull the long gut tightly from the hook to the otherend, to make the knot neat and firm, and also to… … Fig. 3. Lastly, finish off with a similar knot around the gut, andclose to the end of the shank, and cut close (see Fig. 2). The eyes in the larger sized hooks will take stout double ortreble gut, or a single gut can be twisted double by the follow-ing simple method:— Select a long gut, thread it…
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