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veniently carrying it home. This sort of rod 

 is by far the best, both for throwing out the 

 line with more ease and exactness, and for 

 easing it in playing the fish when hooked; 

 and it will have a better spring, if properly 

 made, than the other sort of rods." 



We agree with Mr. Taylor, with respect to 

 the superiority, in the points he mentions, of 

 the rod " of two parts, without ferrules ;" and 

 the best fly-rod we ever used was a small rod 

 of this description, given to us in our boyhood 

 by an Irish clergyman. With it we could 

 throw a fly into a nut-shell. The chief objec- 

 tion to such a rod, and it is almost an insur- 

 mountable one for persons living in towns and 

 far from rivers, is, that it is not portable, and 

 that the putting of it together is troublesome. 

 Gentlemen who live on the banks of fishing 

 streams, and who have servants to put their 

 tackle together for them, would do well to have 

 this sort of rod. In this opinion we are glad 

 to see ourselves supported by the authority of 

 Mr. Rennie, who, in a note to the " Complete 

 Angler," says, "The great objection to rods in 

 many pieces is, that they are not sufficiently 

 pliant ; and no angler, who is as near his sta- 

 tion as Mr. Cotton was to the Dove, should 

 think of such a pieced rod as he describes."* 



* " Some prefer them [rods] of two pieces only, which 



