The Traditional Fisherman's Forum

Posted: **Sat Oct 31, 2020 3:08 pm**

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

Posted: **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.

Posted: **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!

Posted: **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.

Boy’s angling guide. 1880