SELECTION, CARE, AND RIGGING 



cover and keep the two pads apart when the 

 box is closed. Give the felt occasional doses of 

 turpentine applied by means of a glass medicine 

 dropper; this will keep the box moth proof. 

 (A good general plan for the safe storage of 

 flies is to keep them in a tightly-stoppered wide- 

 mouthed bottle or preserving-jar.) Thrust 

 through a slit in the felt at the right end of the 

 removable pad is a small pair of tweezers such 

 as any drug store supplies. The ear-spoon end 

 was cut off and the shank filed down to make a 

 bodkin for cleaning out obstructed hook-eyes. 



Between the removable pad and the box bot- 

 tom there is abundant room for a number of 

 wet flies, eyed or snelled, in envelopes and for 

 a few extra leaders. 



The points of the dry-fly hooks are inserted 

 under the edge of the zinc strips and between 

 them and the felt underneath; they do not pen- 

 etrate the felt. In placing a fly in position, turn 

 it edgewise, pass it under a strip, and then turn 

 it so that the fly stands erect. Reverse the 

 process in removing the fly. 



Even better than the zinc are strips of sheet 

 celluloid or of oiled or shellaced cardboard which 

 are sewn to the felt pad by their lower edges, 

 and their ends caught by a thin leather binding 

 which extends all around the borders of the pad. 



The inside of the box may be given an appli- 

 cation or two of white enamel paint and the 

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