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so anxious to learn this, I should not have permitted you 

 to trouble yourself over so trifling a matter. 



ANGLER. You must not think so. A rod should be 

 provided with plenty of rings, since they equalize and 

 distribute the strain over the whole length of the rod. 

 Thus while its aggregate may be great, it will at no one 

 place reach the breaking-point. And while I would not 

 recommend you to suspend fishing at a favorable mo- 

 ment, merely because a single ring became detached, 

 still you should replace it before the next day. 



Now let us put a new end on your tip. I bend the 

 second pin around the match as before. I then thin 

 the ends in the same manner, omitting, you notice, to 

 twist the loop. I now bring the ends together, thus, 



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Fig. 79. 



in the form of a tuning-fork, give a slightly wedge-shape 

 to the end of the tip, insert it in the fork of the tip end, 

 and wind it on with silk. It will not be amiss to give 

 the loop a bend towards the ring side of the tip, since 

 then the line will render better. 



NOVICE. But I notice that in this case you did not 

 make your " invisible knot " in the way you showed me. 

 This seems much simpler. 



ANGLER. The principle is exactly the same. In the 

 case to which you allude it was tied in the middle of a 

 joint, and under such conditions it must be made in the 

 way shown you. But here there is no long piece extend- 

 ing beyond where the knot is to be, and we can take ad- 

 vantage of this circumstance. I will repeat the knot 

 for your benefit. Having wound as far as we wish, I 



