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Fig. 74. 

 Improved ' ' Tip-Up . ' ' 



the ice, and on the tip of this is 

 hung the line, to which a piece 

 of red stuff has been attached. 

 When the fish takes the bait, it 

 pulls the piece of flag off the 

 twig, and the angler knows at 

 once that a fish has been at 

 work, and runs to the hole to 

 superintend the allowance of 

 line the fish requires whilst 

 pouching or swallowing the 

 minnow. There are various 

 reasons why the primitive form 

 of "tip-up," however, should 

 give place to one of more cer- 

 tain usefulness ; and the appa- 

 ratus I am about to describe 

 out-distances the twig, as the 

 split cane rod goes beyond the 

 " pole " cut from the brush 

 alongside the water. 



Get some half-inch deal board 

 and cut out pieces, as many as 

 you require, in the shape of an 

 outline of Fig. 74. There is 



