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For the bottom-guide on the fly-rod, the author 

 uses the light " Tournament " agate-guide, as pic- 

 tured, which vom Hofe cataloged as size number 

 10, and which used to cost 

 thirty-five cents (there was a 

 smaller size, number 9) ; and 

 for the agate tip-guide, vom 

 Hofe's tubular form, %4 inch in 

 diameter, costing thirty cents. 8 

 Another neat English device is 

 an agate angle tip-guide, with 



. ' . English agate angle fly tip- 



two legs, made to wind on in- guide for winding on 

 stead of to be cemented. Abbey and Imbrie, 97 

 Chambers, New York, have carried these, at fifty 

 cents. The same firm had also a similar device 

 in a larger size, but all in bronze, the guide-ring 

 turning within its encircling wire loop, which they 

 sold for forty cents ; they are nice for mounting bait- 

 or trolling-tops. 



For the short, bait-casting rod, we have adopted 

 the layout shown below (Fig. i), all of the guides 



Fig. i Guide layout for short, bait-casting rod 



being attached to the top-joint. The bottom-guide 

 is of the same style as that selected for the fly-rod, 

 but in the larger size, number 12. The agate tip- 



8 We note again that all these are pre-war prices. 



