CHAPTER XIII. 



ROD AND TACKLE. 



"Away to the brook, 



"All your tackle out look, 

 "Here's a day that is worth a year's wishing; 



"See that all things be right, 



"For 'twould be a spite 

 "To want tools when a man goes a-fishing." — Cotton. 



1 will conceive my reader to be quite unsupplied with 

 rod and tackle, as many in this country are, and will 

 endeavour first to help him to make a shift in a rough 

 and ready way, on the shortest notice possible, and will 

 then point out what I consider the best tackle and how 

 to get it. 



First for the rough and ready then. So you have 

 read this book and want to go out fishing, do you, though 

 you have no rod, no nothing? Capital!! The Rod can 

 soon be managed. 



Cut a thin straight male bamboo, trim 

 ' it neatly, and keep it in one piece, about 



14 or 16 feet long. Get a little brass wire, such as bells 

 are hung with; give it two turns tight round a pencil, 

 with both ends of the wire the same way. You will 

 have an eye which will do very well for the top, when 

 tied on. Small brass rings for the running lines are to 



