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seem to appreciate how much more there 

 is still hidden from our ken. 



We pride ourselves on knowledge, 



Yet the little that we know 

 Seems like the mist ascending 



From the great world below ; 

 Which storms, with voice of thunder, 



Sweep onward into space. 

 The Earth stands fast its vapour, 



Once scattered who can trace ! 



I have now placed the flies under four 

 separate Tables, hoping in this way to 

 avoid confusion. A few words of explana- 

 tion will, I think, be advisable. 



Table I. contains all the flies which I 

 think will be found necessary, and especially 

 for the fishing of Eivers. Most of them 

 belong to my own select list. 



Table II. contains a list of seven flies, 

 some of them of famous repute ; and I 

 should fail in my duty did I not give their 

 respective names and dressings. 



Table III. contains a list of winged flies, 

 without any particular name, or designation. 

 They are dressed in the very simplest way. 

 I do not wish it to be thought, that I 

 place them above the winged flies in 

 Tables I. and II., but, I maintain that 

 they are (in capable hands) able to take 



