SEA-RODS, REELS, AND VARIOUS TACKLES. 77 
keep my rods in the living-room, a habit that does 
not always meet with the enthusiastic approval 
which it undoubtedly deserves. It is important 
to remember, though the remark scems trite, that 
objects impregnated with so greedy an absorbent 
of moisture as salt can never be properly dry for 
long together. Yachting men know this well; but 
it might perhaps be news to others that a coat that 
has been dashed with salt spray in the summer will 
still be damp during the rainy days of November, 
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Line Drier (CLosED). Line Drier (oren). 
serving, in fact, as a rough barometer, or rather 
as an indication of the degree of moisture in the 
atmosphere. The object of which discourse is to 
bring home to the sea-fisher the great advantage, 
+f not absolute necessity, of thoroughly soaking the 
lines each evening after the day’s fishing to get rid 
of the salt, then allowing them to dry (over the 
back of a chair or towel-horse in the absence 
of a proper line-drier) before winding them back 
on the reels. 
‘The rod should be kept as much as possible out 
