16 THE SALMON. 



not always hold in nature. The goose, that arrives 

 at maturity in a few months, attains to a very old 

 age ; and the carp and pike, both fast growers, have 

 been known to live beyond a hundred years. 



WELSH SALMON FLIES. 



The flies ordinarily used by the native Welsh 

 angler are very sober in colour, and few in number. 

 The hooks they prefer are also large, and the exe- 

 cution altogether exceedingly coarse. Yet with 

 these they manage to kill abundance of salmon in 

 favourable weather. They affect to despise the gay 

 and gaudy materials which enter into the compo- 

 sition of what are called Irish flies, without, how- 

 ever, being able to assign any better reason than 

 that " they never tried any such, and are not used 

 to them ; " the real reason, however, no doubt, is the 

 difficulty of procuring any where but in large sea- 

 port towns the feathers of tropical and other foreign 

 birds requisite for the purpose. We have now 

 before us two specimens of the Teivi salmon fly, 

 which were tied at Llandyssil, a village about thir- 

 teen miles from Cardigan, by one of the most cele- 

 brated anglers on that river. 



A SPRING FLY. 



Wings, the dark brown mottled feather of the 

 bittern ; body, orange silk or worsted, with broad 

 gold twist, and a smoky dun hackle for legs. 



