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with it (which is the top of the float) in the 

 shape of an egg, the lower end tapering 

 more gradually, resembling in shape the 

 small peg tops children play with. For 

 pike, barbel, and large chub, these floats 

 should be about the size of a bergamot pear, 

 and for trout, perch, eels, flounders, and 

 ruffs, about the size of a small walnut when 

 the green rind is taken off! Some authors 

 direct cork floats to be proportioned to the 

 number of hairs the line consists of, and for 

 a single hair no bigger than a bean ; I could 

 never find cork floats so diminutive of any 

 use, for small floats quills answer the purpose 

 much better, and I am certain the two sizes 

 I have recommended will be found suffici- 

 ent. Quili rioats are made as follows: 

 Take any quantity of swan or goose quills 

 you want, cut off the barrel part from that 

 where the feathers grow, and with a thick 

 piece of wire, wrapped round the end with 

 cotton wool, clear the inside of the quill 

 irort the film, put in a small piece of pitch 

 about the size of a sweet pea, and with the 



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