6 COVERING FOR BUTTON—ROD-RINGS. [PART 1. 
should be strained and fastened a piece of wash- 
leather,—or, what is perhaps better, thin India- 
rubber—which will be found of great service and 
comfort in preventing the rod from slipping, as it 
is otherwise sometimes inclined to do, when you 
are throwing under difficulties. 
By all means have your rod-rings sufficiently 
large. They should of course be fixed upright. 
Very good ones may be made of thick brass wire, 
hammered sufficiently to be quite hard without 
being brittle. That next the hand should be 
formed by giving the wire a complete turn, and 
bringing the ends down from above over the rod, 
thus (Fig. 1): leading them afterwards a little way 
along the butt, to admit of their being whipped 
on. The line will be thus prevented from getting 
hung up round the ring, which it will otherwise 
