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somehow or other. To be obliged to ferret out one's pocket 

 tweezers, and then to get at one's knife and open it and shut it 

 and put it back again, or still worse to extract one's fly-book from 

 the depths of coat-pocket or creel, and out of that again one's 

 tweezers and scissors involves an aggravating waste of precious 

 moments, and is also trying to the temper. 



For these several very sufficient reasons I tried at all the tackle 

 shops to discover such a contrivance as was wanted equal, that is, 

 to the double functions of " cutting and extracting " and which 

 could be attached to the button-hole or carried in the waistcoat 

 pocket. But nothing even approximately or professedly fulfilling 

 these conditions was forthcoming, so I decided to invent one 

 myself, and here it is. 



" EYED-FLY GUT-CUTTER AND TWEEZERS " (PATENT). 

 (ACTUAL SIZE.) 



' A ' in the diagram represents the Tweezers or, as 

 they might rather be called, very fine pliers and ' B ' is the 

 < cutter.' At the point marked ' C ' a hole is drilled through the 

 steel spring by means of which, and the intermediary of a piece of 

 string, an attachment can be made to the button-hole. When 

 not in use the implement conveniently occupies a place in the 

 fly-box or book, vice scissors ' superseded.' There is a little dodge 

 in the ' cutters,' as to which I feel some paternal pride. The spring 

 sides (D.D.) are bevelled off, at conflicting or opposite angles, the 

 effect of which is that when the said springs are compressed by the 



