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use really presents advantages over the un- 

 aided fingers.* f 



* A vice will cost anything from 5s. to 35s. If it is 

 decided only to learn to tie with a vice, and one cannot be 

 borrowed, it is hardly necessary to pay a long price for 

 one, and therefore I should not recommend an expensive 

 one. But the truth of the saying "cheap and nasty" 

 must not be lost sight of, and it will probably be found 

 that the expenditure of a reasonable sum will lead to more 

 satisfactory results than what at the time appeared to be 

 a bargain. Messrs. Holtzappel, in the Haymarket, sell an 

 excellent vice at 35s., which will last a lifetime ; but there 

 are many useful patterns at a cheaper figure which will in 

 all likelihood answer every reasonable requirement. 



f In the lesson's that follow the various manipulations 

 are described as though the fingers alone, unaided by a vice, 

 were being employed. The descriptions, however, will 

 apply, with the necessary and obvious adaptations, equally 

 well if a vice is used, except in the first lesson, where, in 

 point of fact, more satisfactory results are always achieved 

 without a vice. 



