. Breeder and sportsman. r is was from New York or Australia,whether he had ever heard of the purchaser or not,re .ru rre:.-.:. eer: :re reel ? -When a man gets one of my reels, he used to say.-he will open the package, and. when be finds outthe kind of reel he has, the chances in Dine cases outof ten are that he will send me a check for it. If hedoes not, the first time he is out on the river-bank::e::r tuere wiD :e i eure.1. nee eeeee: :: his:: re:.=nce from that reel. He will wind np his lineand go home and send me the money. And she oldmans faith in his reel as a conscience awakener wasnev
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. Breeder and sportsman. r is was from New York or Australia, whether he had ever heard of the purchaser or not, re .ru rre:.-.:. eer: :re reel ? -When a man gets one of my reels, he used to say.-he will open the package, and. when be finds outthe kind of reel he has, the chances in Dine cases outof ten are that he will send me a check for it. If hedoes not, the first time he is out on the river-bank::e::r tuere wiD :e i eure.1. nee eeeee: :: his:: re:.=nce from that reel. He will wind np his lineand go home and send me the money. And she oldmans faith in his reel as a conscience awakener wasnever disappointed. The revolution which was introduced into reelmaking by Ben Meek and his brother is that of spiralgearing. With a reel having a spiral gearing, skill-fully made and applied, the angler can handle aneight-pound fish with as much ease as he could a four-pound 6-h with a reel having an ordinary gearing.Mr. Meek was also the pioneer in jewelling the pivotbearings of fi-hing reels in such a manner as to have. Raccoon Straits, a Famous But Fishing Resort. the r rots run directly on the jewels. The care usedby Mr. Meek in the manufacture of his reels willappear when it is told Bhas he and his two sons countedseven as the extreme number of fishing reels that ; h e 7 ?:: u 1: :: — j 1 e re i u : u e rre:? n t h t:;r , : caz u.~ .i - --. = .- givinold home it i raniA. nururer :f the .xise a-i :rrtide. 2, r Maei -ee :-iti: :ir rr_er er: -r-parently cared nothing for money. He refused totake out a patent on his reel. If any man can makea reel as well as I can, he is welcome to all the moneyhe can make from if he was wont to remark with aItnet en.le -eee urged to patent his invention. Heel his reels hee. 7 r.-ovided the purchaser did noteeh :ie price when rlTtng the order. To ha~e the! zgered him. It is told that £. title 1Englishman —ith i fondness for fast horses was mak-ing a tour of the American race tracks about twelve.0. He owned a complicated stop watch, forwhich h