Thus use your frog: put your hook--I mean the arming wire--through
his mouth and out at his gills, and then with a fine needle and silk
sew the upper part of his leg with only one stitch to the arming wire
of your hook, or tie the frog's leg above the upper joint to the armed
wire; and in so doing use him as though you loved him.
-- Izaak Walton (1593-1683)
-- The Complete Angler, Part i, Chap. 8
