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not many who can boast of a sporting friend 

 who can furnish them with Bustard, Jungle 

 Cock, Summer Duck, or Blue Chatterer. I 

 only wish I possessed such a friend ! Under 

 the circumstances, one has generally to look 

 for that particular kind of friend in a tackle 

 shop, and he, of course, only parts with his 

 treasures for a consideration. 



The initial cost of even a modest collection 

 of salmon-fly materials appears to many a 

 prohibitive proposition to contemplate, and 

 would seem to be largely responsible for the 

 very incorrect statement that it is cheaper to 

 buy your salmon flies ready made. 



Of course, if you have the means and a 

 bent that way, you can spend 20 over fly 

 materials as easily as you can over equally 

 unimportant and perhaps less harmless objects; 

 but there is no reason why a 5 note judiciously 

 laid out should not furnish a very workman-like 

 outfit, both in implements and materials as 

 a basis, at any rate, for further developments. 



There is, however, no absolute guide as to 

 the probable cost of materials either as an 

 initial outlay or an annual liability, and there 

 is certainly none as to impossible cost. Wind- 



