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times insist on giving my head, hands, and ankles the 

 benefit of their too pressing attentions, I simply spray 

 on a delightful and cooling scent, which effectually 

 keeps them off. In the interest of my readers, either 

 when fishing, shooting, sketching, land-surveying, etc., 

 I can most sincerely recommend " Muscatol," and 

 consider that this clever invention deserves all the 

 pleasant things which were said about it in the Fishing 

 Gazette and elsewhere. 



BINOCULARS 



There will be occasions when the use of the butterfly- 

 net for securing floating or flying Ephemeridse may 

 be impossible or inadvisable. To give one such 

 instance a trout lying in a perfectly glassy back- 

 water may often be observed steadily rising and 

 sucking down certain flies which are floating down- 

 stream ; such a fish may be taken if an artificial fly 

 is delicately presented to him, but your chance of secur- 

 ing him will be reduced to a minimum unless you 

 present the right fly at the first cast. 



It is essential to discover this fly, also to keep out 

 of sight ; below you the water is too deep for wading, 

 and the flies beyond the reach of your butterfly-net. 



The use of a strong and light pair of field-glasses is 

 on this, as on other similar occasions, most useful. 

 Concealed below your fish in the long grass, with such 

 a pair of binoculars you can easily discover the sort of 

 fly the trout is taking, and also any fly beyond the 

 reach of your net. 



