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bustard, sea-swallow, wren, jay, blackbird, thrush, blue 

 pigeon, silver pheasant, parrot, and the tame and wild 

 duck. 



The fur of the mole, water-rat, and hare's ears. 



Mohair, dyed of all colours. 



Fine French sewing silk of all colours. 



Flos silk of all colours. 



German wools of all colours. 



Silk twist, cobbler's and bees' wax. 



A pair of pliers, a pair of fine-pointed scissors, a small 

 slide vice, and a few fine pointed strong dubbing 

 needles. 



Silk- worm gut, from the finest to the strongest; and 

 salmon gut single and twisted. 



Lengths of the white and sorrel hairs of stallions' 

 tails. 



And lastly, a variety of fly-hooks. 



Fancy, of course, exercises a considerable influence 

 over all enumeration of this kind, even when furnished 

 by professed sportsmen. Some anglers, for instance, 

 prefer the London hooks; some the Kirby sneck; and 

 some must have the true Limerick bend. The best plan 

 perhaps is to have a respectable assortment of all ; for in 

 particular situations, and during peculiar seasons, they 

 have all their individual advantages. 



A good FiSHiNG-RoD is one of the angler's most im- 

 portant instruments : indeed he is nobody without it. 



The qualities which a rod must possess will, of course, 

 vary with the nature of angling. There need be no 

 great difference between a salmon and a trout rod for 

 fly-fishing, except you fish in very wide streams, or on 



