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APPENDIX 



If they are spectacles they have to be taken from 

 the pocket and adjusted to the nose, and two hands are 

 required for this. This is somewhat awkward when you 

 are wading, for you do not wish to put the butt end of 

 the rod and the reel into the water. 



If they are pince-nez, and can be fixed on the nose with 

 one hand, then they must be attached to the person by a 

 silk or other cord, and this means even greater annoyance, 

 for the cord has to be freed from your coat and a multitude 

 of obstacles the strap of your creel or fishing bag, your 

 trout net, etc., etc. 



Not only does this occasion a loss of time, but annoy- 

 ance and bother at a critical moment. 



Pince-nez are perhaps the handiest form of glasses to 

 use, but even these invariably get in the way, the hand 

 continually catching in the silk cord, and the glasses 

 being jerked off the nose. Spectacles are too much trouble, 

 and take too long to place in position when the crisis of a 

 " rise " is on, and the fly has to be changed, etc. After 

 a variety of experiments I have invented and patented 

 spectacle-frame attachments which can be easily fixed to 

 the cap, and by means of which, the spectacles, when not in 

 use, are kept on the peak of the fishing, cycling, or shooting 

 cap, the fez, or the smoking cap, etc. 



A single motion of one hand places the spectacles on the 

 nose, and replaces them securely out of danger on a hook 

 placed on the front of the cap, which hook prevents the 

 glasses from coming down. 



In both positions they are absolutely secure, and the 

 cap can be lifted from the head with the usual ease whether 

 the spectacles are on or off the nose. 



The advantages of these glasses are many, and will be 

 readily appreciated not only by sportsmen but by all 

 short-sighted persons. The framework of the glasses can, 



