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making one as nearly similar as you can." 

 Best, who by many is considered a good 

 authority, remarks, " The imitations of nature, 

 in regard to the flies necessary for use ; suiting 

 the different colours so exactly as to resemble 

 the natural fly; and observing the greatest 

 nicety in regard to its symmetry, contribute to 

 make it [the art of fly-fishing] still more 

 delightful. Whenever he [the fly-fisher] makes 

 a fly, let him have the natural one always before 

 him, which will enable him to be a competent 

 judge of the materials most necessary to dub it 

 with." Mr. Hansard, an angler of extensive 

 experience, advises you, " If you make any flies 

 while out, to catch the natural fly, and, seated 

 on your basket in some sheltered corner, to 

 try your skill. Always take a few of the real 

 files home to be copied during unfavourable 

 weather." 



We have thought it absolutely necessary to 

 write this chapter, for unless we disproved the 

 theory of professor Rennie, and we flatter our- 

 selves that we have triumphantly done so, all 

 the instructions, given with such elaborate 

 minuteness in the preceding chapter, would 

 be so much loss of time, and, what is worse, 

 would be tending to propagate false doctrines. 

 The same observation applies to the chapter 

 that will succeed this. It is scarcely necessary 



