MEMOIB OF THE LATE MR. JOHN JUST, OF BURY. 113 



existed a short time, but during its continuance he was one of 

 its ablest contributors. He was also a member of a society for 

 giving and receiving instruction in science and literature, and 

 generally answered his full quota of the questions proposed, 

 although some of them required great research. Amongst his 

 multifarious pursuits, he found time to record in a book kept 

 for that purpose, a series of daily meteorological observations, 

 taken at his residence at Chesham Green, near Bury, from 

 February, 1888, to February, 1851 ; and in looking over this 

 volume, extending over thirteen j'ears' daily observations of 

 both barometer and thermometer, I have found no blanks 

 unaccompanied by an explanatory note to the effect that 

 he was from home at the time. 



Mr. Just was from boyhood a very keen and successful 

 angler ; and a friend states that many an experienced fisher 

 on the Lune and the Kent, would suspend his sport, in order 

 to watch Mr. Just's more artistic and successful casts of the 

 line. For many years he made an annual fishing excursion 

 for a week at Easter, and generally for a couple of days, at 

 the annual Bury fairs in March and September,^ when he 

 could get released from the Grammar School. He always 

 looked forward to these excursions with great delight, because 

 they served to recruit his health, as well as to afford him the 

 enjoyment of his favourite sport. He was generally the first 

 on the stream in the morning ; the last to leave it at night. 

 He brought his energy and his powers of observation to bear 

 even on his amusements, and had formed the opinion that 

 colour and size were the only essentials in flies. He thought 

 that the flies fell upon the water in so many planes relatively 

 to the eye of the fish, that it was impossible for the fish to 

 distinguish their form. He therefore regarded it as waste of 

 time to make winged flies, and never used any but hackle 

 flies, and those generally small. He was so much occupied 

 at home, that he usually had to make his flies before going 

 out to fish in a morning. On these excursions he examined 



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