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native bazaar in India. Put it in a tightly corked bottle with 

 spirita Time does the rest Hade thick, il is liquid glue ; thin, it 

 ia varnish Naphtha is the spirit orclinarily used in England as 

 the cheapest, but spirits of wine, or any highly rectified spirit, will 

 do as well 



Four running line must be scrupulously dried everyday you 

 use it. Never put it away damp, unless you want it "rotten as 

 " pears," to fail you with the first run-away fish This 1 never 

 Degleoted to see to myself. Dry it after morning fishing; dry it 



:i after evening fishing. There are things sold for this purpose 



but I always found the hacks of tWO i hairs, or the eves of the 



udahs, or something else handy enough. 



Wax you must have. Cobbler's wax you ran get from any 



boot -maker, but now-a-davs you must be careful 



to call it shoemaker's wax, or you may be told he 



has not got any. If you are living in the wilds beyond the pale of 



shoeiuaking, and are compelled to make your cobbler's wax yourself, 



the following recipe may be useful: — 



" Take -1 ounces of resin, grind it to a tine powder between two 

 nes, ] ez. of bees' wax chopped up small, and 2 ozs. of common 

 '" pitch ; mix these substances with the resin, and place the whole in a 

 •' small native chatty pot. Then put the pot in a bed of hot wood 

 '" ashes, and with a long, flat-pointed stick work and stir the mass 

 "about until thoroughly melted ; then add £ oz. of good clean tat, 

 " and keep the whole in solution for about a quarter of an hour or 

 ■' twenty minutes. Grease the bottom of a calabash or bowl, half till 

 "' it with cold water: take your pot off the water with a twisted stick, 

 •■ and pour the .molten material into the water. When cold enough 

 " to handle, grease your hands and work the wax about, pull it out 

 •' into long strips, double these back on themselves, and so proceed 

 " until all the materials arc well amalgamated ; then work it out into a 

 '• long stick or rod, take a greased knife and divide it up into pit • ■ 

 " large enough to make convenient balls for use. These are best kept 

 ■■ floating in water until wanted." — " Shifts and Expedients of Camp 

 " Lite, Travel, and Exploration," byW. B. Lord, Royal Artillery, and 

 1 Bainee, P.R.G.S Horace Cox, 346, Strand. 



1 "i white By-making wax Two ounces of 



.ii. one drachm of \» put them into B 



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