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anywhere and do anything ; and further that it is the only reel 

 now ' on the market ' or ever brought before the public that 

 does so combine them. 



This sounds rather a ' tall ' order ! but then either it is 

 true, or it isn't. If not true, I am open to conviction (and to 

 be convicted), and as I have no interest in the reel save a 

 fatherly one, it is only fair to the reader to state the fact straight, 

 as a fact or what I believe to be such. 



The weight of the reel, 4^ inches, is i Ib. 6 oz. ; and that 

 of a ' best London-made reel ' of the same diameter, or one or 

 other of the similar patterns already noticed, somewhere about 

 i Ib. 13 oz. or 7 oz. more. 



The reel is registered and manufactured by Messrs. Farlow. 



FIG. 3. ' PENNELL ' SALMON REEL WITH REEL-GUARD. 



Messrs. Hardy's reel is much lighter than the ' London- 

 made ' reel, and not quite so light as my pattern. There is (on 

 a 4^-inch reel) a difference apparently of 3 oz. in favour of the 

 former, but it is not so in reality owing to the difference in the 

 width of the groove in the two patterns. In Hardy's reel it is 

 if R inch, and in mine i|{|- inch, the result being that a 

 4-inch reel of my pattern will carry the same amount of line 

 as Hardy's 4^-inch, i.e. 40 yards of dressed silk and TOO yards 

 of back line. 



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