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work, and I set about securing a reliable firm to 

 make the flies and sell them. By confining the 

 manufacture of these new flies to one house, I could 

 be more certain of a uniformity and correctness in 

 copying the patterns, especially if I gave my per- 

 sonal supervision to the work. With that end in 

 view, I arranged with the firm of William Mills 

 & Son — agents for the famous Leonard Rods — 

 Park Place, New York City, to have exclusive 

 rights to make and sell all my new patterns which 

 are ten for April, ten for May, ten for June, and 

 ten for July. In that way only could I guarantee 

 that the patterns are what I intend they should be. 



It is very possible that copies will be made and 

 sold by others; but only those flies got direct 

 through Mills & Son will have my endorsement 

 as correct copies of my drawings of the natural in- 

 sects. 



One of the dealers said to me, "We have many 

 flies nearly like yours." 



"That may be so," I replied; "but have your flies 

 under bodies paler than the upper ? Are they used 

 when the natural insect (from which they are 

 copied) is on the water?" 



By the systematized method of fishing, success 

 is sure. The haphazard method of casting any sort 

 of fly without consideration of the feeding trout 

 will, nine times out of ten, utterly fail; if you are 

 fishing in anything but extraordinarily favorable 



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