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FANCY FLIES. 



"Around, a thousand winged wonders fly." — Pope. 



Although the fisherman has dealings with 

 " winged wonders " in superabundance, yet I 

 cannot think of inflicting on the reader quite 

 the Poet's '- thousand." 



With the terrestrial Fly -catcher, of which, by 

 the way, we have only two kinds in England, I 

 have nothing to do ; with the aquatic, some- 

 thing. The terrestrial might not, possibly, be 

 deceived by what is considered a fanciful com- 

 bination of fur, feather, worsted, silk, gold, and 

 silver ; the aquatic are. 



Many of the so-called fancy flies have their 

 prototypes in nature. The term fancy-fly is 

 often vulgarly applied to all flies whose living 

 original is unknown to the angler. But though 

 the angler, to be perfect master of the " gentle 



