Boy’s angling guide. 1880

Cane · Post by **Cane** » Sat Oct 31, 2020 3:08 pm

The following pages are from the “Boy’s own toy maker” by E. Landells. Edition of 1880.

Dave Burr · Post by **Dave Burr** » Sat Oct 31, 2020 3:57 pm

I love the advice in a 'boy's' book that, to make a hole through the cork, insert a red-hot iron.

Cane · Post by **Cane** » Sat Oct 31, 2020 5:05 pm

Those were the days when boys could be boys and some of them even lived to tell the tale!

Dave Burr · Post by **Dave Burr** » Sat Oct 31, 2020 5:13 pm

Cane wrote: ↑Sat Oct 31, 2020 5:05 pm Those were the days when boys could be boys and some of them even lived to tell the tale!

I was talking to my brother just this afternoon about some of the idiotic things we survived as kids. It's amazing that we both reached adulthood

Good fun to reminisce though.

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