THE IS-BILL AND MET-SKOFLAR. 



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Winter fishing, though not so much practised in the 

 vicinity of Ronnum, is greatly followed up in many 

 parts of Sweden, especially in the early part of the 

 frost, when the ice is not of too great thickness, and 

 towards the spring, when the temperature hecomes some- 

 what milder. 



FIG. 1. 



FIG. 2. 



FIG. 3. 



THE IS-BILL AND MET-SKOFLAR. 



Besides the fisherman's usual paraphernalia, he, at this 

 inclement season, is provided with additional implements, 

 to enable him to carry on operations advantageously ; as 

 for instance, the Is-bill, or ice-axe, so to say, (Fig. 1), the 

 lower portion of which is formed of iron, weighing from 



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