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KINKS OF ALL KINDS 



them and applied a smear of glue 

 to the finish, keeping the silk tight 

 the while. I then snipped the silk 

 and removed the surplus glue with 

 a piece of chamois. That finish 

 was ideal, almost invisible and 

 very tight. The glue hardened 

 so quickly that I could go right 

 on winding without having the 

 glue let go because of a little 

 handling. The varnish obliterates 

 any stain left on the silk by the 

 glue. 



My glue pot certainly saved me 

 time and trouble last spring and 

 yours will, to, if you'll only let it, 

 Brother Angler. 



THE BOTTLE CAP FISH 

 SCALER 



BY THOMAS MALONEY 

 A very practical little device for 

 removing fish scales can be made 

 by taking a beer bottle cap (the 

 sharp, scalloped-edge type illus- 

 trated in accompanying diagram) 



and a short piece of wood, capable 

 of serving as a handle. The cap 

 should then be tacked on one end 

 of the handle, driving the nail 

 through the under part of the 

 handle, then bending over on top 

 to fasten more securely. The re- 

 sult is a very serviceable little 

 sealer. 



A CRICKET "FARM" 



BY W. J. FRITZ 



The following kink will, I trust, 

 save many a physical kink in the 

 back of those Sons of Walton 

 who are always prowling around 

 looking for live bait, such as 

 crickets, grasshoppers and the 

 like. Its discoverey was purely 

 acidental, but it has saved me 

 many a valuable hour of fishing 

 time, and what can be more prec- 

 ious than that to an angler? 



For a long time there lay in 

 our back yard the trunk of an 

 old plum tree. Its function was 

 supposedly as a base for running 



vines, which (under the subse- 

 quent circumstances) I am glad 

 to say, refused to "run." One 

 day, after a stretch of wet 

 weather, an old carpet used as 

 a door mat was thrown over the 

 plum trunk to dry. On removing 

 it some time later I was sur- 

 prised to find beneath it about two 



