Il6 TIPS. 



allowed to drop out of sight. Dressing lines is an occupation always 

 intensely interesting, and yet, to obtain complete mastery over the 

 whole business, it seemed, as it has proved by my own experiments 

 merely a question of getting a suitable oil properly refined, a safe and 

 sound method of applying it, and then making the surface smooth 

 and glossy with materials specially made Tor the purpose. 



In all respects this has been achieved in a manner at once 

 gratifying and satisfactory. 



Salmon fishermen may remember an ingredient mentioned in the 

 first edition of " The Salmon Fly," in which the dresser could steep 

 his line and get it ready for use in a few weeks. Following the par- 

 ticulars, given in detail, came another method of preparation by 

 means of a single cylinder air pump, together with a better material 

 than the other for dressing purposes. Of these two plans, anglers 

 generally understood that the former— a dolce far nicnte kind of 

 business, fit only for old women of both sexes— would, without doubt, 

 give way to better expedients. In respect to the latter device, so 

 capricious are the ordinances of Fate, it came to pass that the sort of 

 air-pump in use did not reach the expected success. I myself antici- 

 pated a complete cure for the complaint mentioned, but experience 

 proved that the process only prolonged the life of the line for a 

 certain number of years. 



As shown in the engraving, we have here a double cylinder air 

 pump. Let me hasten to put on record the different effect of this 



