Excerpt from The Unpartizan Review, Vol. 14: July-December, 1920 One evening, while Sitting over the fire which the Scotch evening chill made comfortable, and sipping glasses of hot toddy the wee doch and doris that Harry Lauder has popularized - Spencer devised a new kind of knot to fasten the fish hook to his line - one that a single pull would untie whenever he wanted to change the fly. He handed it to me to duplicate if possible; and I sur prised him by doing this at once. Answering his puzzled inquiries, I told him that I had learned the trick, and many others with string, from my father, who had been a weaver. Ah! An illustration of specialization of func tions! Was his gratified comment. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.