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as it is attached always, of course, by the middle bar with 

 a separate spring. It adds, however, not inappreciably 

 to the weight, which my original pattern does not. The 

 annexed cut shows Bernard's modification as applied to one of 

 their capital silver -bronzed trout-reels. 



BERNARD'S ' SILVER-BRONZED TROUT-REEL,' WITH REEL-GUARD. 



Some beautiful reels are now made in America, for a 

 specimen of the most perfect of which I am indebted to the 

 courtesy of the inventor, Mr. Chas. F. Orvis, of Manchester, 

 Vermont, U.S.A. This reel, with its extraordinarily narrow 

 barrel, and side plates perforated throughout for lightness, 

 seems to me to comprise theoretically all the points of a 

 perfect trout reel, and I find in practice its performance is 

 equal to its promise, its great diameter enabling a fish that 

 ' runs in ' to be wound up so fast that the evils of a ' slack 

 line ' need seldom be felt. Besides the object of lightness, 

 the perforation of the side plates, allowing the air to get to the 

 line, is intended to prevent the latter rotting if left damp, and 

 I must say that during several years' occasional use, though 

 the line has been often day after day left wet, it does not 

 seem to have suffered any deterioration whatever in conse- 



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