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store of knowledge from him that I have found useful ever 

 since. He is dead and gone now, and the like of him I shall 

 never see again. It was Jemmie that pointed out to me the 

 evil of allowing a belly to remain in my line, and who taught 

 me how to rectify it. 



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To accomplish it is a knack which can only be acquired by 

 practice, but I think it of such importance that I will endeavour, 

 by the aid of the diagram, fig. 3, to explain how it is done. 



A c represents the rod and c e the line — as first cast, in correct 

 position, c f represents the belly, almost instantly made. By 

 making a back-handed upward cast, the belly, c f, the outward 



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