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ing;" and, what is worse than all, that they 

 have studiously concealed the sources from 

 which their pilferings were extracted. Au- 

 thors, even of standard reputation, are liable 

 to this charge. Best has taken from Cotton, 

 nearly verbatim, the latter's instructions how 

 to make a fly which is not a hackle or palmer- 

 fly ; and in Bowlker's Art of Angling we find 

 that Mr. Bainbridge's list of materials, and his 

 directions for dressing a fly, are, without 

 acknowledgment, inserted. We could point 

 out many serious instances of plagiarism, but 

 for the present we content ourselves with 

 making the general charge, hoping that 

 authors on angling will, in future editions of 

 their works, name the authorities to whose 

 labours and observations they are so deeply 

 indebted. 



We beg to state, that we never fish, save now 

 and then for comparison' sake, with any other 

 flies except those that have been fashioned by 

 our own fingers ; and that we never use any 

 materials but those of which we shall give a 

 full list and description. We have no arriere 

 pensee we withhold no secret from our readers 

 all the arcana of the art, which hitherto we 

 have kept to ourselves, we now, without the 

 slightest restriction, fully divulge for the 

 benefit of the public. We shall have to men- 



