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If not already informed, you will be glad to know 

 about those government section-maps, to be had 

 from the Department of the Interior, that note in 

 great detail all the essential features of about al- 

 most any section of country that you may be plan- 

 ning to visit. 



And don't overlook that flashlight, with extra bat- 

 teries. 



" J. A. C", in The American Angler, tells about 

 a friend who possessed " a barrel of tricks worth the 

 attention of the angling fraternity. I was fishing 

 the Concord River, Massachusetts, with him not 

 long ago. It was raining; a bully day for fishing 

 but a hard day for smoking, which is the special con- 

 solation of a wet day out of doors. He was in the 

 bow of the canoe and I was trying to paddle just 

 near enough to make good casting for both of us, 

 myself fishing at the same time and trying to keep 

 a pipe going too. Some job. Every once in a while 

 I saw him lean over, open his coat and apparently 

 scratch a match on the lining. It looked sensible to 

 me, so I tried the same trick. But it didn't work. 

 Finally, I asked him how he did it; the matches 

 would n't light on the inside of my coat. He turned 

 around, opened his coat toward me, and then I saw 

 he had sewed onto the lining a bit of rough emery- 

 cloth, about two inches wide by five inches long. 

 ' Great scheme, Jim,' he said." 



