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to find with it ; but it costs a dollar or more, and a 

 bag made of an old linen sheet or table-cloth, 

 which can be washed every time after being used, 

 is even preferable. I object to putting my fresh 

 and beautiful trout into an ill-smelling basket ; and 

 it is almost impossible to deodorize or get out the 

 smell of fish if once it has got well into the porous 

 woodwork. Then, again, the basket soon rots, — 



fig. 30. — Home-made Fish-bag. 



about three seasons is the life of it, — and you 

 have to buy another. 



A bag something like Fig. 30 is the most suit- 

 able for the boy bait trout-fisher. He can also carry 

 his worms in the small bag at a, Fig. 30, in damp 

 moss, and thus avoid the extra trouble of attaching 

 a tin bait-box. However, if he wishes to do this. 

 Fig. 31 is a good pattern. My own bag is a leath- 

 ern one, and so made that it can be turned inside 



