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MR. EARDLEY HOLT'S CLEARING KNIFE. 



Let us pass on from modern improvements more especially 

 connected with float-fishing, to the mention of a few of what 

 may be called general angling miscellanea. And as I am 

 warned by the publishers that though 'Art is long life is 

 short,' which I read as a delicate hint to finish I will condense 

 as much as possible even the few things I had it in my mind to 

 say about them, and, so to speak, introduce them without an 

 introduction, or with the briefest of explanatory or descriptive 

 notes. 



The success of the ^roller's knife,' page 154, led to its 

 giving birth (though in other hands than my own) to a somewhat 

 smaller-sized offspring, suited for trout-fishing, and fishing 

 generally, except for pike. This was brought out some years ago 

 by Messrs. Hancock and Watson, tackle makers, of No. 308, 

 High Holborn, and how they can make and sell it at the price 

 they do (6s. 6d.), is one of those mysteries into which I do not 

 pretend to penetrate. Not unnaturally, it has had, I understand, 

 a very successful career. The scissors and disgorger blades are 

 excellent, both in design and workmanship, and as every fisher, 



