1 6 Dauie Jutland s Rod. 



seasoned rod in three pieces, the butt 

 hollow, of hazel, willow, or aspen, with a 

 ferrule to receive the second joint, which 

 is to be of hazel, with a " fair shoot of 

 blackthorn, crab-tree, meddler, or jumper " 

 spliced to it for top joint. 



The wood for the rod is to be cut 

 between Michaelmas and Candelmas /.*., 

 in the winter. The wood is to be " set " 

 straight in a hot oven (as you may any 

 day see the Redditch and other rod- 

 makers do it in this year 1893), allowed 

 to cool and dried for a month, then 

 fastened to a large straight piece of 

 wood, and the butt hollowed out, first by 

 passing a red-hot iron through the pith, 

 and after that enlarging the hole by many 

 larger irons, and so tapering it. The butt 

 is then to be allowed to cool, and after 

 two days is unfastened and smoke-dried 

 in the roof until thoroughly dried. The 

 other joints are to be seasoned in the 

 same way, and you thus get a rod which 

 " will be light and full nymbyll to fish 

 with." What is there in such a rod to 

 laugh at? alight hollow "butt, a springy 

 second joint spliced to a fine tough top ; 

 for the words " take a fair shoot of 

 blackthorn," etc., show clearly no stiff 

 weaver's beam of a rod is intended, such 

 as that depicted in the printed work. 



