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Messrs. Chevalier Bowness and Bowness, of 230, Strand, are 

 now lined all over or more correctly, all inside with corru- 

 gated cork i.e., cork cut across and across in 'ruts.' 



BOWNESS'S 'POCKET BOX' FOR EYED-FLIES. 



I may notice in this connection although intended for use not 

 with eyed flies but with 'gut flies ' an ingenious patent of Messrs. 

 F. T. Williams, Fishing Tackle Makers, of 10, Great Queen Street, 

 London, the object of which is to keep the gut or at any rate 

 that part of it nearest the fly straight and ready for use, instead 

 of curled up and often entangled, as is the case with flies carried 

 in the ordinary fly-book. The box is of japanned tin, with 

 rounded corners, for convenience in carrying in the pockets, and 



'CLIMAX FLY BOX FOR GUT FLIES. 



inside are arranged springs, as shown on the right hand side of 

 the diagram, which keep the links of gut stretched and each in 

 its separate place. 



Messrs. Williams are also the inventors of a fly-carrying box 

 designed, by means of felt linings, to keep the gut links of the flies 



