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a tidy cabinet. It will prevent what happens not 

 seldom, that some indispensable article or other is mis- 

 laid, and years perhaps elapse before it is again recovered, 

 when it either must be replaced with a new one, or a 

 total suspension of business is the result. 



My own plan is simply this : I have a small cabinet 

 of mahogany, fitted up with drawers of various dimen- 

 sions, to contain feathers, wings, hackles, dubbings, 

 implements for dressing, etc. in fact, my whole stock in 

 trade with folding doors in front to keep all snug. 

 This I find to be a most convenient form of tackle- 

 magazine, and I cannot do better then furnish you with 

 such diagrams and directions as will enable you to have 

 one made, either by your own hands, if you are fond of 

 mechanics, or otherwise by those of the cabinet-maker. 

 You will observe, in the first place, that by dividing a 

 cabinet of this kind by a vertical partition down the 

 middle, two different sets of drawers may be fixed in it, 

 so as to face each way, and thus afford as much stowage 

 as two separate cabinets. By a slight difference in the 

 size and arrangement of the drawers on the two faces, 

 one is rendered suitable for the preservation of salmon 

 and pike tackle, while the other is devoted to the 

 trouting department. And if the wealthy tourist wishes 

 to go forth in heavy marching order, intent upon con- 

 quering satisfaction and amusement under all circum- 

 stances, in spite of adverse weather and lonely solitude, 

 let him pack it up in a spare corner of his trunk, and 

 he is provided against any emergency that may arise. 

 Its stores will also afford him no small amount of 



