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as a substitute, a piece of split willow, (a 

 length of zinc or copper-wire makes a good 

 substitute.) The basket-maker now tacks 

 this, at intervals, to the inside and near 

 to the top of the fishing-basket itself. I 

 now take my creel to a waterproof-maker 

 and have an indiarubber cloth-lining or bag, 

 cut carefully to pattern, till it fits exactly to 

 the shape of the creel. The glazed surface 

 of the rubber cloth is of course placed inside 

 it and next to the fish. The top portion is 

 doubled over in order to give strength, and 

 several large-sized hooks, such as are used 

 to fasten ladies sealskin jackets and other 

 like garments, added. These hooks are 

 firmly stitched on, but are also held in 

 position by pieces of indiarubber cloth, 

 smeared over by the solution usually em- 

 ployed, (pure indiarubber dissolved in 

 naptha) when mending waders or water- 

 proof coats. But the exact position must 

 be obtained, before these hooks are fixed 

 on at all. It is obtained thus. 



The indiarubber lining is held inside 

 the creel by the one hand, it being mean- 

 while marked carefully, by the other ; and, 

 if this is properly carried out, once the 

 hooks are permanently fixed on the lining, 

 not only will it be found in situ, but, 



