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BEETLES. 



The lawyer who drew up the marriage settle- 

 ment on the projected alliance of John Dory 

 and Ann Chovy, omitting the fair lady's 

 name, performed the exact part of the fly- 

 fisher who goes to the river without any 

 of the Beetle race in his possession. We 

 presume the lady's name to be of principal im- 

 portance in such an instrument as a marriage 

 settlement. Of precisely similar importance 

 is the Beetle to the angler. What should 

 we think of a gentleman addicted to coursing, 

 whose establishment consisted of setters and 

 pointers? The fisherman's establishment is 

 equally incomplete without Beetles. Yet how 

 seldom have I seen any of the Coleoptera order 

 in the Fly-book ! With the exception of the 

 small Beetle, commonly known among fisher- 

 men by the name of the Peacock-fly, I have 

 rarely met with one. This is not in the 



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