6 COVERING FOR BUTTON ROD-RINGS. [PART 1. 



should be strained and fastened a piece of wash- 

 leather, or, what is perhaps better, thin India- 

 rubber which will be found of great service and 

 comfort in preventing the rod from slipping, as it 

 is otherwise sometimes inclined to do, when you 

 are throwing under difficulties. 



By all means have your rod-rings sufficiently 

 large. They should of course be fixed upright. 

 Very good ones may be made of thick brass wire, 

 hammered sufficiently to be quite hard without 

 being brittle. That next the hand should be 

 formed by giving the wire a complete turn, and 

 bringing the ends down from above over the rod, 

 thus (Fig. 1) : leading them afterwards a little way 



Fig. i. 



along the butt, to admit of their being whipped 

 on. The line will be thus prevented from getting 

 hung up round the ring, which it will otherwise 



