230 AN UNEXPECTED CONCLUSION. 



floss-silk body, golden pheasant's crest tail, under 

 which are several turns of the thinnest silver wire, 

 and some turns of the floss-silk ; the silver wire 

 is then carried over the body spirally; close 

 under the wings is wound a small dark partridge 

 hackle. The wings are of — First, brown speckled 

 mallard : second, about a dozen fibres, from the 

 golden pheasant's rufl"; Third, three or four fibres 

 of bright green paraqueet, and above them are 

 about a dozen strands of dark mottled, or rather 

 striped turkey. Above the wing is hackled either 

 a striped blue jay's wing feather, or a marlow-buz 

 hen's hackle*, which is perhaps preferable, and 

 then a heading of ostrich hurl completes the fly. 

 I shall try this myself by and bye, and I know 

 I shall succeed with it, if the fish continue on 

 the move. 



Enter Messenger with a Letter. 



Herb. — Theophilus, what means this pallid 

 tremor — this suddenly anxious visage ? 



Theoph. — My friend, instantly we part. How 

 unexpectedly. Little indeed do we know what a 

 day may bring forth. I must leave you, and not 

 only you, but dear Old England, at the same 

 time. The call, imperative, admits of no delay. 

 I must depart at once. Farewell, my pupil. If I 



• Similar to the Marlow-buz hackle mentioned ante; but taken from 

 oflF the hen's neck. 



