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with jewels and gold and other equally
appropriate fittings that cost two hundred
iron men. We might as well get
this price thing straight before we go on,
and what T say will go also for the rest
of the outfit. It is true, as every once
in a while some boob arises to remark,
that the dollar rod will catch nearly as
many fish as the twenty dollar rod. It
is also true that the seven dollar, malleable
iron, single barrel shotgun will kill
a limit nearly as well as the hundred
dollar Parker, but there never was a
shooter with a brain in his head who'd
go afield with tbe seven-dollar lemon if
he could afford the hundred-dollar boy.
HE GOES A-FISHING 111
"Trout rods," explained the tackle
man, taking down one from the ceilingscraping
cluster, "can be had in good
reliable make for five dollars, and for the
chap with limited, very limited appropriation,
I'd suggest this one. But the
experienced fisherman wouldn't take it;
he'd walk to save car fare and cut out
sodas, to get a rod he knew had the
fittings and construction he wanted. We
want German silver mountings, split
bamboo material, solid cork hand-grip,
snake guides—these little hickeys
through which the line runs—agate tip
guide, and ferrules that are serrated and
welted. Most of these things we can aret
"A POUND AN' A HALF. AN" HE FOUGHT LIKE A MUSKIE!
Catching fish, as somebody remarks, is
not all there is to fishing; killing poor
bobwhite is not all there is to shooting.
t lather me?"
"I do," said the stranger, "you're right
from the first word to the last one.
Down with the dollar, the two-dollar,
and the three-dollar rod. Prom that on,
I'm lost."
for ten dollars, but I'd suggest this
fifteen-bone grade of the celebrated
celestial make. The name is one at which
no bug can turn up his nose, and the
maker doesn't know how to put out a
poor rod. Sure, they look a lot alike,
regardless of price, but you won't fish
a month before you will know the difference
as surely as vou can distinguish