Here's a Question for Anglers

1914

What Sort of Fish Hooks Did Our Remote Ancestors Use? Is Up for Discussion

What sort of hooks did our ancestors, our really remote ancestors, use "when wild in wood the noble savage ran?"

I am inclined to agree with the American view that the earliest type of hook, if hook it can be called, was a straight bit of flint buried in the bait. When the fish had swallowed the bit of meat, or whatever the bait was, the tightening of the line pulled the flint across its throat, and, as it stuck there, the fish could be hauled ashore without more ado.

Perhaps some bright innovator of that misty past one day tried a bit of flint which had a double curve like a pair of buffalo horns, and found it effective, and perhaps out of that developed the genuine double hook, which seems to have been a very early form. And perhaps the single hook that came into being because it was realized that one bend was as efficient as two for most purposes. — London Telegraph.


Another "Limit"

The stingiest man in Jamestown, the Optimist says, loafs around the drug store in the hope that the odor of the drugs will cure his cold. — Kansas City Times.


Quite So

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