THE FLY-FISHER'S " HARNEYS." 61 



and comparative cheapness with which every article 

 can now be procured in all parts of the country, 

 in a style of workmanship unmistakably charac- 

 terised by the extraordinary improvement which 

 the last few years have so conspicuously developed 

 in all our industrial productions, whether minis- 

 tering to the wants or to the amusements of man- 

 kind. Except in the case of flies, therefore, to 

 which these remarks can hardly be so generally 

 applicable, we shall confine ourselves to such a 

 description of the necessary implements as we may 

 consider necessary to enable our pupils to make 

 a judicious selection of them to detect infe- 

 riority, and to know what constitutes excellence. 

 We proceed first, then, to treat of the fly-fisher's 

 rod, and then, seriatim, of his tackle, or, as it is 

 called by Dame Juliana Berners, his " harneys,"* 



* This lady was the first angling author, or at least the 

 first who published a printed book on the subject. She 

 wrote that curious production, The Bake of St. Albaris, 

 which was "imprinted" at Westminster, by Wynkin de 

 Worde, the assistant and friend of Caxton. This u Boke" 

 was published originally without " the Treatyse of Fyssh- 

 inge," which was added to it for the first time in 1496. 

 Dame Juliana, who was eminent for piety and learning, and 

 whose name ought to be held in veneration by anglers in all 

 ages, was prioress of the nunnery of St. Sopwell, near 

 St. Alban's, Hertfordshire, and her "Boke," besides the 

 " Treatyse of Fysshinge" already mentioned, contained 



