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maker to this book, unless you are going to lend or give him a 

 copy : for unless lie has a large Indian trade, it will not pay him 

 to buy it. But if you will only particularize carefully, and I have 

 done all I can to help you, you can continue to deal with your old 

 friends. But if you will not be troubled to particularize, perhaps, 

 you had better go to those who are likely to be in the way of 

 supplying Mahseer tackle, always warning them, however, that you 

 don't want a "Mahseer rod" for Mahseer, but a Salmon rod as 

 particularized. There may be a hundred such shops that I know 

 nothing of. I can only mention such as I know, that the reader 

 who happens to know none may be helped as far as I can help 

 him. In so doing, however, I don't want to tamper with your love 

 if your affections are already centred. My love was plighted long 

 ago to Fallow. He first hooked me with a proper Mahseer hook, 

 and then stole my heart with one of his rods. It is the special 

 confidant spoken of among rods. But I have poked about in other 

 si in] is picking up tackle lore, and paying for it by purchases. 

 Bowness above-mentioned understands Mahseer tackle. So does 

 G. Little and Co., 15, Fetter Lane, Fleet Street. He is employed 

 to supply the. Civil Service Co-operative Society of 28, Haymarket, 

 and also the Army and Navy Co-operative Stores Society, 117, 

 Victoria Street, Westminster, London, S.W.,sothat if you are in the 

 habit of going to them for other things, I suppose they, too, could 

 get you the proper tackle. They profess to do so in their Price Lists. 

 In Madras, there is the shop of Messrs. Oakes and Co., Exchange 

 Hall, Blacktown. They have some excellent tackle supplied by 

 Bowness, and some that must have been made up for Methusaleh, 

 "or his uncles or his aunts," and unless you go and pick for your- 

 self, they don't know which to give you. In Bengal. I am told, 

 there are three men who know how to supply the right article : — 



E. B. Eodda and Co., 7 and 8, Dalhousie Square, Calcutta. 



Manton and Co., 13, Old Court House Street, Calcutta. 



Biswas, whose address I do not know. 



Presuming presumptiously that some few of my readers will be 

 converted to my ideas of tackle, and will wish their tackle shop to 

 supply them with the things particularized, to lighten the labour of 

 the tackle-maker, 1 have gathered together in one place in the 

 index all the references that will be useful to him. 



Phantom minnows should be dressed with hooks of the same 



