62 THE ROD. 



and shall conclude this division of our subject, 

 with instructions, in a separate chapter, for the 

 manufacture of artificial flies. These instructions, 

 we trust, will differ from those very generally 

 given in works of this description, in the important 

 particular of being sufficiently simple and com- 

 plete to effect an object so much oftener attempted 

 than attained, namely, that of enabling a person 

 of ordinary intelligence to acquire from them 

 alone, with moderate application, a practical know- 

 ledge of the delightful art. We say this with 

 some degree of confidence, because both the letter- 

 press instructions and the diagrams which illus- 

 trate them are the production of practical fly- 

 makers, and have been prepared with no little 

 labour and care; and because more than one 

 pupil, possessing not the slightest previous know- 

 ledge of the art, have by their aid alone, in 

 manuscript, become what many who manufacture 

 books on angling are not the makers of a neat 

 and "killing "fly. 



In the choice of a fly-rod the purchaser must 

 dismiss every idea of a whip, and remember that 

 the great desideratum is power, not pliability, and 

 that stiffness is one of the chief means by which 



also treatises on " Hawkynge and Huntynge," in verse, 

 and also a treatise on the method of " Blazynge of Armes." 



