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much more stable boats made of inflated india-rubber : I see 
I have omitted to mention the name of another firm, C. W. 
Meiter & Co., of Gracechurch Street, who also obtained at 
the Fisheries Exhibition a prize for their folding boats, of which 
the smallest size draws only two inches ot water, and is 
claimed to be ‘unsinkable.’ 
So now I have said my say about rods and rod woods, reels, 
reel lines, hooks, knots, and angling paraphernalia generally; and 
I repeat that I am not so sanguine as to suppose that anything 
TACKLE AND FLY-TYING MR. EARDLEY HOLT’S 
VICE, CLEARING KNIFE. 
I have adduced will convert a single veteran to deviate a hair’s 
breadth from his own approved patterns and theories, to adda 
few eyed hooks to his fly-case, or to shorten the length of 
salmon rod a single inch. . . . And this is just as it should be. 
Uniformity would be monotonous, and I am all for ‘liberty 
