IX 



The Angler's Rods 



44 While we our peaceful rods shall busy ply, 

 When fish spring upward to the dancing fly." 

 SIR HENRY WOTTON. 



" Spare the rod, spoil 

 the child." 



ISHING rods are of great 

 variety, both in weight 

 and material, some 

 being made heavy, 

 some light, and some 

 medium in weight ; 

 they are made of split- 

 bamboo, plain bamboo, 

 cane, Calcutta reed, lancewood, betha- 

 bara, greenheart, ash, maple, and other 

 woods, as well as of steel and other com- 

 positions. Some are in joints two, 

 three, four, and five pieces, others in 

 one piece, and some are telescopic. 



Rods cost one dollar, two dollars, and 

 so on up to one hundred dollars, accord- 

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