

was narrow-minded enough to make coarse remarks while we were rowing 

 back to camp for surgical assistance. 



Oysters do not rise readily to the artificial fly, particularly during tie 

 spawning season. 



Tackle boxes are now thrown upon the market in great numbers, and are 

 of several sizes. The smallest is made to contain chewing tobacco and fish- 

 hooks well mixed up together; but the larger kinds have more compartments 



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than a tenement-house, and will hold lines, hooks, reels, sinkers, gangs, poker 

 chips and other necessaries with ease. 



I submitted to Mr. T. B. Mills a design for a Sportsman's Complete 

 Portable Tackle Box holding seven rods, four blankets, a demijohn, canned 

 oysters, bacon and a folding boat, with extra compartments for a camp kettle 

 and a bowling alley to be used in case of rain, but as yet I have not heard that 

 he has taken any steps toward getting a patent. 



Some persons complain that their reels will not fit into any tackle box 

 made; that is because they buy the reel first. The proper way is to get your 

 tackle box and then only purchase such articles as will go in snugly. 



