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generally understood; and when 

 I have noticed, more as a 

 curiosity than with utilitarian in- 

 tention, another float, " the glow- 

 worm," which is supposed to shine, 

 like its prototype, in the dark, and 

 thus enable the enthusiastic angler 

 to pursue his sport after night-fall, 

 I have said pretty much all that 

 is to be said on the subject. 



The above brace of floats are 

 the manufacture of Messrs. Foster, 

 as also is an improved form of 

 clearing hook, which may be use- 

 ful at a pinch, when tackle has to 

 be liberated or lost. 



I should not, by the way, 

 omit to notice another good 

 modification of an old invention 

 in the same direction Williams' 

 e < Cumberland Clearing Ring." 

 The first object, of course, of all 

 clearing rings is, by being slipped down over it, to clear the line 

 that has got fast on the bottom, or received an unwelcome 



FOSTER'S ANGLERS FRIEND" 



TACKLE LIBERATOR 



