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so much line, and which on trial holds some fifty yards 

 less than you expected. 



Take with you a stout box — wood or leather — hold- 

 ing scissors, pincers, a knife, hooks of all sizes, wire, gimp, 

 extra lines, vaseline, file, thread, and the other odds and 

 ends, lack of which interferes so often with comfort and 

 sport. And do not omit from these binding silk, wax, 

 and varnish, for a split bamboo is not proof against salt 

 water, and if injured must be mended at once. 



Your ticket to Catalina, allowing for a few days en 

 route, and your expenses between London and Avalon, 

 should not exceed fifty pounds. The rates at the Avalon 

 hotels vary, according to accommodation, between $2 and 

 $6 a day. 



Small-game shooting begins about the first of October, 

 and continues till the end of February. I have already 

 said that it is impossible to get really good duck or quail 

 shooting unless you camp out. The best quail grounds 

 are still to be found in Southern California, but only a 

 market-hunter can take you to them. He will provide 

 everything, but it will be well, in your own interest, to 

 add a few luxuries. You will take a tent, but I advise 

 you to sleep, if possible, in a waggon. My brothers and I 

 always took a light waggon with two horses. The bed of 

 the waggon was filled with hay for the horses, and on this 

 hay we slept. As a general rule it is not necessary to 

 carry much hay, as it can be bought at the ranches at a 

 reasonable price ; and farmers, we found, were generally 

 willing to supply us with butter and milk and eggs. Do 

 not sleep in their hams. You will be disturbed by the 

 horses and by fleas, and there is always the danger of 

 fire. 



Remember, too, that if the autumn rains have not 

 fallen, the country over which you are shooting is covered 



