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the facilities commonly at hand, an accident here is be- 

 yond immediate repair, and unless another reel can be 

 had, the pleasure of his trip if not altogether ruined, is 

 much impaired. 



The preceding illustration shows how this part should 

 be constructed. A is the click- wheel, which should be 

 of hardened steel. The axle of the spool is squared to 

 receive the wheel which fits on this square, and is there 

 secured by a large-headed screw, a. Thus this part is a 

 fixture, and cannot by possibility get adrift. The spring, 

 B, is rigidly secured to the side of the reel by two screws, 

 and should be actually tempered and not made from 

 wire or metal which owes its elasticity solely to rolling, 

 as is too often the case. C is the pawl working on a 

 pivot, both ends of which are secured, the lower in a hole 

 in the plate itself, and the upper in the cap, D. This 

 latter is fastened to the plate by two screws as shown. 

 Here it is plain nothing can get out of order; and this 

 was the usual method when reels were provided with an 

 exterior box in which the working parts were enclosed. 

 This box, however, was usually made so unnecessarily 

 large as to be unsightly, while the reels themselves were 

 inconveniently wide. Consequently these were super- 

 seded in popularity by a narrower reel, of that form in 

 which the working parts constituting the click are placed 

 between one side of the spool and its adjacent side plate. 



Though some reels of this form are well made in this 

 respect, still by far the greater part are not; and brass 

 click-wheels and brass pawls inadequately supported, and 

 wire springs riveted to the side plate of the reel, are 

 the usual components of the click. Of course brass is 

 totally unfit as a material for parts destined to such se- 

 vere usage, and cannot wear for any length of time. 



