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have been frequent in my own experience. Quite the most 

 droll remark on this subject was made to myself, and is 

 illustrated in Plate XII. Coming home from fishing one day 

 on the top of a tram car, 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 this valuable case absolutely 

 unprotected. Alas ! the moths entered and committed con- 

 siderable 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. The stream 

 being an ordinary trout brook, you have no keeper or friend 

 with you to suggest the fly to fish with. 



Your Field or Fishing Gazette has told you that Black 

 Gnat, the Blue Quill and Olive Quill are being taken on 



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