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fishing very much depends upon showing the 

 fish a good imitation, both in colour and size, 

 of that insect which he has taken last." Mr. 

 Taylor, who calls his work, " Angling reduced 

 to a complete science" and must not, therefore, 

 be considered a " routine" fisher, after giving 

 very minute directions how to dress a fly, con- 

 cludes by saying, " The head being then nice- 

 ly completed, the fly will be most natural and 

 beautiful." Again, the same author, with much 

 of sound sense but which is in direct oppo- 

 sition to the learned professor's theory re- 

 marks, that " as you cannot keep the artificial 

 flies to sit on the surface of the water, as some 

 of the natural ones do, they are taken for those 

 that are driven under by the current, which 

 makes the fish more eager in taking them, for 

 fear they should recover and get away." In 

 another passage Mr. Taylor makes the following 

 excellent observations, which decidedly militate 

 against the heretical principle of professor 

 Rennie: " When you go out a fly-fishing, you 

 should not forget to have with you a little of 

 all your different materials for fly-making ; for 

 the fishes are sometimes so whimsical, that you 

 may see them take insignificant flies freely, 

 which at other times they would not look at. 

 When this is the case, catch one of such flies, 

 and try how far art can imitate nature, by 



