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FLY-FISHERS' EPHEMERID/E. 



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EPHEMERID^ OF THE CHALK STBEAMS. 



OF the few works which have been produced on this subject, 

 none are couched in terms so elementary that they make 

 an appeal to the angler in his arm chair. In them is 

 much counting of invisible teeth and numbering of infinitely 

 small hairs, so that the simple fisher quickly feels that the 

 matter is too hard for him, and must be left to the attention 

 of scientists with very large microscopes and much leisure. 



It is, indeed, a difficult business to name with precision 

 the genera and species to which individual members of this 

 family belong, the more so as it is not improbable that several 

 perhaps one should even say many have no names, yet 

 there are lines comparatively simple along which the fisherman 

 may travel that will lead him in due course to the end of a 

 journey both pleasant and profitable, inasmuch as that he will 

 have acquired a sound working knowledge, sufficient for all 

 practical purposes, of those insects which provide the cream of 

 sport with the rod. Nor would it be rash to say that such as 

 get a grip of this subject will find it gets a grip of them, and 



Sr.816500 



