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colour, will be acknowledged as hard to beat. I 

 do not possess such an article myself, but I have 

 a very fair substitute for it. The essential features 

 of this are illustrated. (Fig. 16.) 



The framework is simply a shelved box, with a 

 lid that can be raised upwards, and adjusted at a 

 suitable angle by means of a piece of string, so 

 that it can be used as a reflector if desired ; and 

 stout cardboard boxes, of the shape illustrated, 

 take the place of properly made wooden drawers. 

 It will be seen that the lids of the boxes may be 

 reversed, so that the latter can be used as open 

 drawers ; and the labels should be arranged as 

 shown in the figure, so as to be easily read when 

 *the lids are in this position. 



The boxes should fit the shelves exactly in an 

 up and down direction, but sufficient lateral room 

 should be allowed for the fingers to be inserted 

 on either side of any box so as to remove it 

 easily. Of course, the other boxes on the same 

 shelf are first to be pushed on either side, so that 

 less than one inch of extra space in each shelf will 

 suffice. This space can be padded when one is 

 travelling with full paraphernalia. 



For the above design I am largely indebted to 

 a Fishing Gazette correspondent of some five 

 years ago. 



