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rod showed hardly any traces of the work it had gone through, 

 and though not taken to pieces, sometimes for a fortnight together, 

 was straight enough to be pleasing to the eye, as well as to the 

 hand. My rod was entirely of greenheart. Signer Abaurre who 

 shared the campaign and a keener sportsman 

 does not live had a rod the fellow to mine, 

 but of blue mahoe, and his rod did not stand 

 the hard work nearly so well. In fact, after 

 a few weeks, it had, like Shakespeare's Witch, in 

 the " Tempest," well-nigh " grown into a hoop." 

 I have had built by Farlow one of these ten 

 foot greenheart rods made somewhat stouter 

 throughout, and especially in the top, for extra 

 H heavy lake work. This rod, in which a little less 

 g 'swishyness' was desirable, is not made with a 

 splice but in two ordinary joints, fitted with the 

 ^ "Fastener " (described at page 80) ' snake rings,' 

 and the reel fittings I have elsewhere alluded to. 

 g For a lake trout rod, I think this makes a really 

 < perfect weapon, and it also serves excellently 

 well the purpose [which a more ' limber ' rod 

 o will not] of a stream minnow-spinning, and of a 

 w worm-fishing rod. Rods look very much alike 

 in engravings, but possibly the illustration will 

 2 help to eke out my description of the "New 

 Chum." Its speciality is that it is powerful 

 without being unpleasantly stiff. . . 



This reminds me to mention a "rule of the 

 rod " of great importance to all fishermen, and 

 pre-eminently to the fly-fisher. It is a rule, in 

 fact, which knows of no exception, that the 

 power stoutness, stiffness, weight of the rod, 



