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KINKS OF ALL KINDS 



when set on the ground will be 

 found to prove very satisfactory. 

 If a more elaborate stove is de- 

 sired it might be fashioned after 

 Fig. II, with both ends closed by 

 riveting a strip of the same ma- 

 terial in place and cutting a door 



with draft in one end. A stove 

 pipe made of a piece of small 

 eaves trough may also be inserted 

 through a hole in the top and 

 fastened from the inside with the 

 two flanges or cleats fastened to 

 the underside of the top. 



MARKING A ROD 



BY JULIUS FRANK 



A very fine casting-rod was 



found and could not be returned 



to the owner because the finder 



knew no way to locate him. This 



led me to mark my rods in a very 

 simple and effective manner. Fol- 

 lowing is my Kink: 



Just above the reel-seat in the 

 first space between silk windings 



on the rod I scraped the varnish 

 and bared the wood. 



I took a letter head that had 

 my name and town address printed 

 on it, and with a very fine grained 

 sandpaper I sandpapered the back 

 of the paper until the place over 

 the name was very thin. Then 

 with a very sharp knife I cut 

 name from the paper. 



Having paper and rod thus pre- 

 pared, I spread a very thin coating 

 of varnish (I used Valspar) on 

 the rod in the place previously 

 scraped ; I placed the name in this 

 space and spread a thick coating 

 of varnish over all. 



When the varnish was com- 

 pletely dry I found that the paper 

 was entirely transparent and the 

 name appeared as if printed on 

 the rod. 



Thus you see that I have plainly, 

 inexpensively and permanently 

 marked my rods. 



A CAMP KNIFE 



BY JOHN B. COWING 



The accompanying diagram 



shows a camp knife to be made 



from a piece of broken handsaw 



blade or from a carpenter's steel 



scraper blade, with a sole leather 



handle riveted on, and the handle 

 sandpapered and varnished with 

 good rod or spar varnish. This 

 makes a light but useful knife, 

 good for general use, but not in- 



