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and has a beautiful action, is well balanced, casts a 

 good line, and is a good all-round rod. 



Farlow and Co. are also the agents for the cele- 

 brated " Leonard " rods. I have a 9 feet " Leonard " 

 weighing 3-J- ounces, which I won at the International 

 Tournament ; it is the best rod of this weight I ever 

 used. 



J. Bernard and Son, of 45, Jermyn Street, make an 

 excellent rod called the " Fairy." This rod, 8 feet 

 6 inches long, weighs from 5 ounces to 6 ounces ; the 

 price is 4 10s. It is well named the " Fairy," and it is 

 a capital rod for a lady, having a perfect balance and 

 action, a most comfortable cork handle, and, when 

 fitted with the Itchen reel and Bernard's special-made 

 tapered silk line, is a pleasure to use. This rod can 

 be built to order in different sizes up to 10 feet 6 inches. 



Westley Richards, of Birmingham, sell an excel- 

 lent double-handled trout rod, called the " Panama." 

 The rod is light, well built, well balanced, and has 

 an excellent action. It is strengthened by a system 

 of cross-sectioned silk wrappings. The silk is flat and 

 shrunk on the rod, and almost invisible. This system 

 of sectional wrapping in silk is strong, and lighter and 

 neater than the steel ribbing used on Foster's very 

 excellent " Dovedale " rods. 



The " Panama " is made either for salmon, grilse, 

 or trout rods, and is excellently finished. 



Ogden Smith's, the " Warrior," is a double built 

 throughout cane rod, 9 feet 9 inches in length, and 

 made either in two or three joints, is light and power- 



