CHAPTER XL 



THE SPO MET-TRAD SVIFLANDE SVIFVEL-VIND LINE, REEL, AND IIOOK- 

 SLANT-KROK SLANT-SPO SPRING-KROK DRAG LEKARE LJUSTER- 

 ELDSTODJNING BLOSS SUMP. 



THE rod and line were constantly used by almost every 

 peasant in my neighbourhood, and one might say through- 

 out Scandinavia generally. 



The Spo, or rod, is usually a very primitive affair, 

 consisting either of a slip of red deal duly fashioned, 

 and with a flexible top ; or of a long, slender, and tapering 

 young tree -juniper or mountain-ash being preferred, which, 

 from the magical properties these trees are supposed to 

 possess, will, it is imagined, insure success to their owner. 



Rods go under various denominations in Sweden, as for 

 instance, the Flug-spo, or fly-rod; the Flott-spo, or float- 

 rod; the Sank-spo, or that for fishing at the bottom, but 

 without a float; the Rull-spo, or reel-rod (but this was 

 not included in the list until subsequent to the introduction 



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