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both in regard to stowage, and to expence, than a well- 

 regulated pocket-look. 



The quickness and satisfaction arising from a methodi- 

 cal attention to this point, are in themselves sufficient 

 claims to the adoption of systematic regularity : but when 

 we consider, that the incumbrances attendant on the va- 

 rious requisites which should ever be at the angler's 

 command, are thus included in a smaller space, and that 

 they are preserved both in order and in good condition, 

 it seems wonderful, that so many should forego such ad- 

 vantages, merely from the want of resolution to look over 

 their stock at a leisure hour. 



It need hardly be insisted on, that what is done during" 

 the hour of leisure, is generally far better executed than 

 what proceeds under all the circumstances of vexation, 

 hurry, and their several consequences. In fact, in a 

 well-ordered compendium, every thing comes so imme- 

 diately to the hand, that little difficulty would be pre- 

 sented, were any part of the tackle to require change, or 

 to be replaced in the dark - } wliile the possessor of a mass. 

 of unsorted, unarranged apparatus, can scarcely, at any 

 time, contrive to bungle together that of which he is in 

 immediate want. 



Speaking of the pockct-btok, I should rather be un- 

 derstood as recommending two : for in rny opinion, the 

 whole of what relates fajty-jlsking, should be kept sepa- 

 rate, in a very neat case, capable of containing a few fly- 

 II nes, some spare gut to repair Jbot-lengt/is t and from one 

 to two hundred flies of sorts, properly classed in separate 

 envelopes of vellum, and superscribed in large characters. 



Also ^flat-reel) a fewfe&tktrs, of sorts, ready trimmed, 

 some different coloured silks on a card, a little collars- 



