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will, unless they have, or aim at having, a sufficiently large Indian 

 connection to make it worth their while to buy this book, and keep it 

 by them for reference, and to give it the necessary study. If they will 

 I have done all I can, in careful particularizing of details, to help anglers 

 to continue to deal with their old friends by helping their old friends to 

 be able to give them satisfaction. If, therefore, your angler affections 

 are already centred I do not want to tamper with your love. My love, 

 I will confess it, was plighted long ago to Farlow. He first hooked me 

 with a proper Mahseer hook, and then stole my heart with one of his 

 rods. It is the special confidant spoken of among rods, p. 63. And 

 up-to-date they have continued to make such a speciality of Indian 

 fishing that well, I am afraid to say more lest I should be charged 

 with favouritism, while, in brief, the one thought of my book is to aid 

 the angler, in special consideration of the grievous disappointment of 

 having the wrong tackle sent you out in India at such an irremediable 

 distance from your tackle shop. 



I may add the following names: Bowness, 230, Strand; G. Little 

 and Co., 63, Haymarket, London ; the Civil Service Co-operative 

 Society of 28, Haymarket; the Army and Navy Co-operative Stores 

 Society, 117, Victoria Street, Westminster, London, S.W. ; J. Enright, 

 Castle Connell, Ireland; Eaton and Deller, 6 and 7, Crooked Lane, 

 London Bridge, E.G. ; Hardy Brothers, Alnwick. In Madras, there is 

 the shop of Messrs. Oakes and Co. In Bengal, I know that T. P. 

 Luscombe of Allahabad knows how to supply the right article, and I 

 am told that the three following men also do : 



R. B. Rodda and Co., 7 and 8, Dalhousie Square, Calcutta. 



Manton and Co., 13, Old Court House Street, Calcutta. 



Biswas, whose address I do not know. 



Presuming presumptuously that some few of my readers will be 

 converted to my ideas of tackle, and will wish their tackle shop to 

 supply them with the things particularized, to lighten the labour of 

 the tackle-maker, I have gathered together in one place in the index, 

 and as far as possible in this Chapter also, all the references that will 

 be useful to him. 



Single Vent Hook. The single vent hook for spinning should 

 be one uneyed Mahseer treble hook, No. 5, on No. 2/0 Allcock's 

 patent rust-proof wire gimp, the gimp being, to prevent slipping, 

 passed between the trebles and brought up again three-quarters of 



