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store of knowledge from him that I have found useful ever 

 since. He is dead and gone now, and the like of him I shall 

 never see again. It was Jemmie that pointed out to me the 

 evil of allowing a belly to remain in my line, and who taught 

 me how to rectify it. 



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To accomplish it is a knack which can only be acquired by 

 practice, but I think it of such importance that I will endeavour, 

 by the aid of the diagram, fig. 3, to explain how it is clone. 



AC represents the rod and CK the line as first cast, in correct 

 position. CF represents the belly, almost instantly made. By 

 making a back-handed upward cast, the belly, c F, the outward 



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