THE BROKEN ROB. 85 



Mending a Broken Rod. 



If you should have the misfortune to break your rod 

 while fishing, repair it in the following manner : cut the 

 broken ends with a slope, (see the cut) so that they may 

 lay smooth and close together, then bind them together 

 with some strong silk or twine, waxed with shoe-maker's 

 wax, or you may use wax-ends such as coblers mend 

 shoes with, begin to bind the fractured part* together, 

 about two inches above the middle thereof, making the 

 laps about a quarter of an inch apart, -and continue so to 

 bind two inches below the middle of the fracture, then 

 whip or bind back again to the part at which you began* 

 now bind or whip down again, keeping the lappings close 

 together until you come to within four or five turns of the 

 two inches below the middle of the fracture, .now -lay the 

 fore-ilhger of your left-hand over the rod, (see the cut) 

 then with your right-hand make four or five bows or hoops 

 over the finger of your left-hand with the silk of whatever 

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