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open spaces should be filled with hooks already dressed, 

 artificial flies of various descriptions, together with 

 bait and minnow tackles. As to the tin box, it should 

 be about five or six inches in diameter, and two in 

 depth. This is useful for carrying about such casts of 

 flies, or other tackle, as have been aforetime assorted 

 and made up, preventing that trouble which a well- 

 crammed pocketbook creates, where confusion is apt 

 to be bred, and loss of time occasioned. Of the flask, 

 no Scotsman will deny the utility. 



So much for the different sorts of angling apparatus ; 

 and let us advise all tyros in the gentle art to be on 

 their guard against cheap and useless materials. To 

 such as practise the kindly pastime of angling, we re- 

 commend diligently the manufacture of their own flies, 

 which, unless the angler be fully up to, he had better 

 handle his rod no longer ; for we consider the dressing 

 of artificial flies to be a requisite accomplishment in 

 every brother of the craft. 



