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cover, the line will easily slip off. You should then 

 wind some string round it to make it keep its shape in 

 a coil, which will prevent it from becoming entangled, 

 and having done this, soak it in prepared cold linseed 

 oil for ten hours ; then take it out and wind it tightly 

 on a clothes-horse or any frame, and place it in the 

 wind, but keep it from the dust and sun, and when 

 quite dry, you can wind it off and put it in your fish- 

 ing-box until you want it. The linseed oil is prepared 

 by boiling it for a certain time, and can be obtained 

 at any chemist's. 



