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dressers, and named perhaps after some 

 gentleman angler, who has had it c launched 

 off' in the Field or elsewhere, such as the 

 'Francis fly/ and scores of others. We 

 cannot do without our salmon flies so 

 named, because we cannot call them aught 

 else than 'Jock Scott/ 'Childers/ 'Black and 

 Blue Doctor/ etc. etc., bat it seems a very 

 different occasion to introduce fancy names 

 for trout flies, where it is possible to allocate 

 them to their natural relatives. Some no 

 doubt there are which often do noble service, 

 and as it is not pretended that they imitate 

 any natural insect or at least any known 

 insect such must be retained. The pro- 

 bability is, however, that they do imitate 

 some insect accidentally, or otherwise that 

 their colours are blended in such a way as to 

 command success under certain conditions of 

 light and colour, and of ivater and sky. We 

 believe the whole question may yet be found 

 to resolve itself into what we have before 

 referred to, a consideration of light and 

 colour effects. How otherwise is it that on 

 some days trout allow flotillas of 'March 

 Browns ' and flotillas of ' Early Duns ' to float 



