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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. 
AC represents the rod and cE the line—as first cast, in correct 
position. cF represents the belly, almost instantly made. By 
making a back-handed upward cast, the belly, cr, the outward 
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