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pollack line. All these lines are the most perfect 

 of their kind, and with care will keep for many 

 years ; they can be barked if thought advisable, 

 and I should by all means recommend their being 

 done, as they will only take about forty-eight 

 hours' doing, and the cost is next to nothing. 

 Another good plan is recommended by a corre- 

 spondent in the ' Field' newspaper, who writes 

 under the signature of " W. W." He says, make 

 a coil of your line, which should be bound round 

 in three or four places with thread ; take of best 

 glue half a pound, water a little more than half 

 a pint ; place in a large pipkin or other convenient 

 vessel; warm gradually until the glue is tho- 

 roughly dissolved and quite clear, when your coil 

 of line should be put in and boiled for twenty 

 minutes. Take out your line, cut the bands, and 

 lay it on the grass, a dry day, of course, being 

 chosen for the operation, arranging it up and 

 down like the teeth of a large saw, so that the 

 strands shall not come in contact. In about four 

 hours it will be dry, when it must be recoiled 

 round the hand and placed in a boiling solution 

 of catechu, half a pound of catechu to one pint 

 of water ; keep boiling for three quarters of an 



