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of the book where it may easily be found. 

 First : when the cloud is on I advise the use 

 of one of these three golden twisted flies, with 

 silk bodies, orange, red, and pale blue, with 

 red, orange, and gray hackle, golden phea- 

 sant's hackle for tail, and kingfisher's blue 

 and golden pheasant's brown hackle under 

 the wing; beginning with the brightest fly, 

 and chanmnff to the darker one. Should 

 the clouds disappear, and it become bright, 

 change your flies for darker ones, of which I 

 will point out three : — a fly with a brown 

 body and a red cock's hackle, one with a dun 

 body and black hackle and light wing, and 

 one with a black body, a hackle of the same 

 colour, and a brown mallard's wing. All 

 these flies have, you see, silver twist round 

 their bodies, and all kingfisher's feather un- 

 der the wing, and golden pheasant's feather 

 for the tail. For the size of your flies, I re- 

 commend the medium size, as the water is 

 small to-day; but trying all sizes, from the 

 butterfly size of a hook of half an inch in 

 width, to one of a quarter. Now, Physicus, 

 cast your orange fly into that rapid at the 

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