70 A Comparison. 



ing fly-fishing. Dennys, who wrote at 

 least a hundred years after Dame Juliana, 

 seems to have known little or nothing 

 about fishing for salmon, trout, etc., with 

 an artificial fly. I say artificial because 

 he certainly refers to dibbing with a 

 natural fly in his directions for taking the 

 chub and trout. But Dame Juliana gives 

 us most excellent directions for the 

 making of artificial flies for the different 

 months. To her belongs the honour of 

 telling us first that the noble salmon may 

 be taken with a fly. She says : 



"Also ye may take hym but it is 

 seldom seen with a dubbe at such tyme 

 as when he lepith in lyke fourme and 

 manere as ye doo a trought or a 

 graylynge." 



Again, value for value, Dame Juliana 

 is far ahead of Dennys as regards instruc- 

 tions for making rods, lines, hooks, floats, 

 etc. 



But if Dennys is not so advanced as 

 one might expect in the practical details 

 of angling, he is far ahead of all other 

 English angling writers who have attempted 

 to describe the art in verse. In the first 

 line of his " first booke " he tells us 



" Of Angling, and the Art thereof I sing." 

 And in the second verse we have this 



