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"Here's a compromise affair,
like a gun with a shotgun barrel
above and a rifle barrel below
for either moose or bobwhite.
The experienced shooter wouldn't
take such a gun for either
game—but let that go."
"Gimme the trout rod we
picked," interrupted the stranger.
"That nut wouldn't lemme stay
in camp overnight with anything
iif the sort; I know him—and
yet I can see the good points of
the combination affair."
"It's got 'em," said the dealer,
positively; "I mind me of getting
into a deep and lonely
canyon out in Oregon two years
ago, with a creek that was wide
and deep and chock full of trout
—big ones, that'd never seen a
man, smelled an automobile, or
tasted a fly. I was deer bunting
and didn't have a sliver of tackle
along with the pack train, but I
bought me one of these trunk
rods just for times when the full
length boy couldn't go along.
These undiscovered and unfished
creeks are the things the trout
man dreams of.
"Now, here's a bully good bait
rod and it costs only ten bucks.
They come a lot higher, but there's no
sense in sticking a lot of money in
one : there's mighty little action to a bait
rod because of the stiffness, and any of
them are strong enough until bad luck
lights on the bow of the boat. She's Syi
feet long, two jointed, with the joint
well down the butt section, giving more
spring and strength to the rod at the cost
of a trifle longer package when it is
taken down. It comes from the shops
of the famous Jimheddon over at the
town with the funny name, and it's
plentv rod for you. In fact, for the first
year or so I'm not sure this one for six
dollars wouldn't do: it's all rod and a
'yard wide' and good enough for anybody
but the blamed shark."
"Gimme the ten dollar one," demanded
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the stranger, "I can feel this fishing
thing coining over me worse every minute."
"All right, we'll finish up that trout
layout, before we talk any more bass.
Next song on the program is a reel.
Here, again, we ought to have two, one
for each sort of fishing. Any old reel
is good enough for trout; it is mostly a
line-holder anyhow after you learn; it
isn't merely a blasted steam winch for
dragging in the trout, as the beginner
thinks. I'm going to hand you this one
for two dollars, which'll make the first
fishing crank crossing your path throwthree
fits without pausing. It's cheap but
it's plenty good, and mighty light.
whence its name. Holds in theory a hundred
yards of line, which means 45 yards