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and Messrs. Hardy have too high a 

 reputation to risk it by putting their 

 name to anything which is not really 

 sound and good. Moreover, this 

 particular rod was shown to me and its 

 merits explained at the Sportsman's 

 Exhibition, and I must say it ap- 

 peared to be a very serviceable 

 weapon, and one which did great 

 credit to the inventor's ingenuity. 

 A diagram of the rod (or rods) with 

 Messrs. Hardy's explanatory note is 

 annexed. 



"This is two complete rods in one. 

 When intended as a single handed rod, the 

 short butt, A, is used with the handle B, in 

 conjunction with tops E and F. For the 

 13 ft. the longer butt, C, is used instead of 

 A, and the short butt-piece, D, fixes to end 

 of butt B, to give grip for one hand behind 

 the reel. The short butt can also be used as 

 single handed rod making 1 1 ft. 6 in. This 

 rod is specially useful as a boat rod. If 

 fishing in the bows, the 13 ft. length 

 enables the angler to fish beyond the oars 

 and angler in the stern. If fishing from the 

 stern, unship butt C, and fix butt D, and you 

 have the ordinary 1 1 ft. again. These rods 

 we have only made in cane built with and 

 without steel centre. We could make them 

 to order, however, in wood if required." 



ROD-JOINTS. 



The old-fashioned ferrule and 

 socket rod-joint, which, unless tied 

 together, had a happy knack of 

 coming apart when not wanted, and 

 of obstinately ' sticking fast ' and 

 declining to come apart at all 



