now TO MEND A BROKEN ROD. 33 



to keep his mouth open, which enables you very easily, 

 with the aid of a disgorger, to remove the hook. 



Mending a broken Rod. 



If you should have the misfortune to break your rod, 

 while fishing, repair it in the following manner : cut the 

 broken ends with a slope (See the cut J so that they may 

 lay smooth and close together ; then bind them together 

 with some strong silk or twine, waxed with shoemakers' 

 wax, or you may use wax-ends such as coblers mend 

 shoes with ; begin to bind the fractured parts together, 

 about two inches above the middle thereof, making the 

 laps about a quarter of an inch apart, and continue so 

 to bind two inches below the middle of the fracture ; 

 then wliip or bind back again to the part at which you 

 began ; now bind or whip down again, keeping the lap- 

 pings close together, until you come within four or five 

 turns of the two inches below the middle of the fracture 3 

 now lay the fore-finger of your left-hand over the rod, 

 fSee the cut J then, with your right-hand, make four or 

 five bows or hoops over the finger of your left-hand, 

 with the silk, or whatever you are mending the rod with. 



