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heat them red hot in this lamp, for a pin as it comes 

 from the manufacturer is too stiff for our purpose. Now 

 that the points are cool, I cut off the heads and insert 

 those ends in the stick, and repeat the process. Now 

 they are annealed, and we can proceed. I take a smalb 

 round stick a match will do and applying it to the 

 middle of the pin, bend the latter around B 



it, thus forming a loop. A Q 7 



I now insert the loop in a crack in the Fig. 77. ^, body of 

 floor or in a cleft stick to serve as a vise KddkTif^inl 

 (since we have neither the latter nor a e.and d, ends of 

 pair of pincers), and twist the ends of the 

 pin around till they are at a right angle with their for- 

 mer position. We now have, in effect, a straight wire 

 provided with a loop at a right angle to 

 its middle. I then file the two ends, 

 Fiir 78 4 bod ^P an ^ Bottom, tapering them grad- 

 of pin, snowing ually away from the loop to a sharp 



sharpened ends; n J J , r T . \ 



B, loop. edge at each extremity. I now wind 



this on with waxed silk in its proper 

 place, and it is finished. 



NOVICE. I am very much obliged ; but had I not been 

 so anxious to learn this, I should not have permitted you 

 to trouble yourself over so trifling a matter. 



ANGLER. You must not think so. A rod should be 

 provided with plenty of rings, since they equalize and 

 distribute the strain over the whole length of the rod. 

 Thus while its aggregate may be great, it will at no one 

 place reach the breaking-point. And while I would not 

 recommend you to suspend fishing at a favorable mo- 

 ment, merely because a single ring became detached, still 

 you should replace it before the next day. 



Now let us put a new end on your tip. I bend the 



