REEL-LINES. 



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long wearing * conscientious ' lines in fact in every way but 

 of which I would have none at any price. With such, every 

 time you want to lengthen or shorten your cast there is friction 

 on the rod-rings, and an impediment more or less to free 

 passage ; in giving line to a fish, ditto (often the cause of losing 

 it) whilst both in casting through the air and lifting out of the 

 water, such a line entails at every cast of every day, from its 

 ( cradle to its grave,' a certain small comparative disability, 

 which to willingly subject oneself to is stupid, because wholly 

 unnecessary. 



This naturally applies to any kind of line, dressed or un- 

 dressed. 



TACKLE AND FLY-TYING 

 VICE. 



MR. EARDLEY HOLT'S 

 CLEARING KNIFE. 



