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of every angler: i, screw driver; 2, oil-can; 3, cut- 

 ting pliers; 4, bit of rod cement; 5, skein winding 

 silk; 6, coil fine copper wire; 7, file; 8, tube rod var- 

 nish; 9, pencil brush. Every caster will undoubtedly 

 think of articles he would like to have, but they can 

 be dispensed with. A pair of scissors would be apt 

 to come in handy, but a sharp pocket knife will take 

 their place, so I omit them. A word regarding that 

 pocket-knife; let it be a two-bladed one and keep the 

 little blade at razor edge to be used only in an emer- 

 gency. To contain the rod-varnish nothing is quite 

 equal to the collapsible tubes used for toothpaste and 

 various toilet articles; if you can not secure a new 

 one from the druggist, then empty and thoroughly 

 clean an old one. Such a tube need not be large, for 

 the caster will seldom need any great amount of 

 varnish, though the lack of it may injure and even 

 ruin a fine caster. The file should be of the flat 

 variety and not overly long. I use a tool-handle con- 

 taining an ideal reel-screw-driver, file, and thirty or 

 so other useful articles, thus eliminating one neces- 

 sary article and gaining thirty. The copper wire is 

 unwound from the spool and coiled to save space. 

 The silk is also wound upon a flat card for the same 

 reason. Spools are always bulky. The bit of rod 

 cement is wrapped in oiled silk; there is no need for 

 a whole stick of the stuff. Let the oil-can be small 

 and leak-proof, if there is such a thing. The reader 

 will remember that I specified cutting pliers where 



