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and a tip, all of equal length. This is the most 

 common type known to-day, the handiest for 

 carrying, but with its faults. Its ferrules are, 

 in theory, placed to better advantage than are 

 those of the rod of the second class. Practice 

 undoubtedly proves this theory correct. In a 

 rod of $y 2 feet, however, the ferrules mate- 

 rially stiffen it at these two points, and it must 

 be very carefully proportioned. 



