부산대학교 도서관

Perhaps the germ of "angling," as distinguished from ordinary fishing, is to be found in a certain sense of superiority over his fellows felt by the inventor of the first real fish-hook. To tie a string around tile middle of a long splinter of flint, cover the flint with bait, let a hungry fish swallow it, and then jerk, depending upon the chance that the flint would turn cross-wise in the stomach of the fish and thus pull it out of the water--all this was one thing to bring tile fish up hooked neatly in the mouth by the deftly shaped bit of metal was quite another, and the inventor of the new method doubtless felt entitled to a little more than the average signs of respect from the multitude as he carried his catch back to his cave or tent.