142 THE KILLARNEY PROPRIETORS. 



brown mallard and turkey, with a few fibres of 

 golden pheasant neck-feather ; black ostrich head, 

 macaw feelers and hooks as before. I consider 

 this a good general fly. 



i^iIIarncD ^ummcr-jritcsf. 



Black bodies, blue hackles, and wings as before. 

 Also bodies of hare's ear fur and orange mohair 

 mixed, golden olive hackles, and wings as before. 

 Hare's ear and green golden olive hackle for body, 

 and wings as before. Very dark brown olive fur, 

 same coloured hackle, and wings as before. 



The angling glories of these most beautiful 

 lakes have, for the present, nearly departed. The 

 nets of reckless proprietors have dimmed them to 

 the great loss of inn-keepers and poor boat-men. 

 Would that the famous echoes of the caverns, 

 caves, grottoes, and glens of Killarney unceasingly 

 repeated louder and louder still — until proprietors, 

 English and Irish, were driven into the practical 

 adoption of the philanthropic principle — "pro- 

 perty has its duties as well as its rights I " 



Cf)C SSlacIilnatcr, €aunty i^crrn. 



This is a good, little salmon river, for which at 

 high and coloured water the three following flies 

 will be found the best. 



