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and makes them shy. So assured am I of this, 

 that when fish are ' coming short/ as they often 

 do during east winds, ^etc., and I find that they 

 are consequently going away pricked, I prefer to 

 stop fishing rather than spoil future sport. Were 

 it not for the reason I have stated, I should most 

 certainly use detached bodies in preference to 

 those dressed in the ordinary way. 



Francis links the olive dun with the blue 

 dun, and considers it merely a variety of the 

 former. He mentions two kinds of olive, the 

 large and the small, the body of the large olive 

 being yellower than that of the smaller. He 

 states that the quill of the eye of the peacock's 

 feather dyed and stripped gives the best imita- 

 tion, the wing of the larger fly having less of the 

 brown dye in it, or without it altogether, and the 

 legs lighter. The latter dressed on a 9 or 10 

 hook, the smaller on an n or 12. 



He also gives another dressing, as follows : 



Body : Dark olive silk, with a turn of gold tinsel 

 at the tail end, ribbed with yellow silk or fine 

 gold wire. 



Hackle : Darkish-blue dun, stained olive. 



Tails : Two strands of blue dun, stained olive. 



Wings : Dark or light starling (as required). 



Hook 10 or ii. 



I would inform the reader that Francis measures 

 the sizes of his hooks inversely to Halford or 



