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Fly-rods and Fly-tackle. 



Fig. 21. Same knot to form loop on leader. 



Knots, theoretically more perfect, are generally em- 

 ployed for this purpose, but practically they are no whit 

 better indeed hardly so good, since they are all more or 

 less complex, while this knot is already known to every 

 child ten years old. 



The next step is to unite this looped strand to an- 

 other, to be the next thickest of the bundle from which 

 the first was chosen. For this purpose the very same 

 knot may be used, by lapping the ends past each other, 

 and then proceeding as though you were about to tie 

 the same knot in a single string, and adjusting its posi- 

 tion so as to fall on the doubled part thus : 



Fig. 22. 



