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patterns, and its excellent plates. But its in- 

 structions in fly-making lack the lucidity of 

 Captain Hale. Sir Herbert Maxwell's delightful 

 " Salmon and Sea-trout," the only blot on which 

 is the reproduction of crude illustrations of tackle 

 from tackle-makers' catalogues, contains some 

 useful hints. If the angler is curious as to the 

 local patterns of British and Irish rivers, he will 

 find them set forth by the late Mr. Francis 

 Francis in " A Book on Angling " (London, 1867, 

 and later editions), more fully than elsewhere. 



But from whatever source instruction may 

 best be drawn, I would say to the angler in 

 Norway, " Do not on any account omit to learn 

 how to tie a fly, if you feel that you have the 

 slightest aptitude. The practice will stand you 

 in good stead, if only for repairs, and it will 

 save you from the boredom which sometimes 

 besets the unemployed in the long hours when 

 fishing is out of the question. And do not be 

 deterred by the fear that you will never be able 

 to rival the neat productions of the professional. 

 The fish will like your rough flies quite as well, 

 and when you have of set purpose changed the 

 hackle of a standard pattern, or modified the 

 wing, and with the result brought to bank the 



