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the other dressed with a hackle such as I have described ; 

 in a tumbler of water, and then move them up and down. 

 The cock hackle remains unsympathetic and rigid, while 

 there is decided " movement " in the softer hackle. The 

 only objection to the soft hackle that I can see, is, that 

 it does not last long ; and the man who makes this objec- 

 tion, need not expect my sympathy, if he is not so successful 

 as he might be, when trout need some catching. 



Finally ; the thinness of the body, consisting as it does 

 only of the tying silk, is a feature vastly in its favour, in 

 wet-fly fishing. 



