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attention, and hints from friendly strangers that 

 " Your hat, sir, is covered with feathers," etc., have 

 been frequent in my own experience. Quite the 

 most droll remark on this subject was made to myself, 

 and is illustrated in Plate XX. When I was coming 

 home from fishing one day on the top of a tramcar, a 

 fond mother kept her children quiet for some time by 

 an entomological discussion as to the nature of the 

 " tame " flies grouped on my fishing-cap. 



MOTHS 



Moths constitute a very real danger to the security 

 of all artificial flies, and during the off season camphor 

 should be freely used. My dear old friend the late 

 Dr. Wiblin, one of the keenest fishermen and kindest 

 of men, gave me a few years ago a big case of specimen 

 flies, which Mr. Halford had especially arranged for 

 him. An assiduous maid, intent on removing all 

 extraneous matter, carefully dusted this out, and left 

 the valuable case absolutely unprotected. Alas ! the 

 moths entered and committed considerable havoc 

 before I discovered the evil. 



DRY FLY FISHING WITH THREE FLIES 



Now we will suppose you have just arrived for the 

 first time at a stream for a few days' fishing. It is 

 an ordinary trout brook, and you may not have any 

 one with you to suggest the correct fly to fish with. 



Your Field or Fishing Gazette may have told you that 



