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ANGLER. Then let us replace that ring on your rod. 

 But I see you have lost the end ring from your tip as 

 well. 



NOVICE. Oh, never mind that ; I have another one. 



ANGLER. We may just as well do both, and then at 

 some future time you will be able to aid or instruct some 

 brother angler in both of these particulars. 



If we had some spare rings, or even some small copper 

 or brass wire, it would help matters ; but as neither of 

 these is at hand we must resort to pins for our material. 

 You see I insert the points of these pins in a stick, and 

 heat them red hot in this lamp, for a pin as it comes 

 from the manufacturer is too stiff for our purpose. Now 

 that the points are cool, I cut off the heads and insert 

 those ends in the stick, and repeat the process. Now 

 they are annealed, and we can proceed. I take a small 

 round stick a match will do and applying it to the 

 middle of the pin, bend the latter around 

 it, thus forming a loop. A 



I now insert the loop in a crack in the pi g .77._^,bodyof 

 floor or in a cleft stick to serve as a vise Fn n middie Sf"S 

 (since we have neither the latter nor a c.and <*, ends of 



. pin. 



pair of pincers), and twist the ends of the 

 pin around till they are at a right angle with their for- 

 mer position. We now have, in effect, a straight wire 

 provided with a loop at a right angle to 



^ Qi its middle. I then file the two ends, 



~ 78 _ A bod to P an( i bottom, tapering them grad- 



of pin, showing ually away from the loop to a sharp 



sharpened ends; , J J , v T 



B, loop. edge at each extremity. I now wind 



this on with waxed silk in its proper 

 place, and it is finished. 



NOVICE. I am very much obliged ; but had I not been 



