78 BEETLES. 



The Beetle has six legs ; and, in these large 

 kinds, you may furnish them with their natural 

 number, if so it please you ; the two longest, 

 which are the hind legs, being placed, perhaps, 

 half a straw's breadth further back than the 

 others. For my own part, I never use ipaore 

 than four either for large or small Beetles. 

 Indeed, the legs of the smaller kinds have been 

 so curtailed by Nature — are so very minute — 

 that I commonly make them without any, and 

 find them quite as effective. 



There is one Beetle besides the Peacock- 

 fly, mentioned in page 51., and, to the best 

 of my belief, only one, in common use with 

 anglers. This we call the Marlow Buzz. 

 Instead of putting together peacock, gold, and a 

 furnace hackle, why not imitate Nature, and 

 produce fig. 1. Plate IV. ? 



The Marlow Buzz sometimes kills well; 

 fig. 1. kills better. 



At times, though not very often, we may 

 succeed with almost any thing. But should 

 you chance to be a rather fastidious ama- 

 teur, not caring to kill fish right and left 



