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brown of the partridge. With the last I also place 

 my flies with speckled wings, from the May-fly to 

 the grey drake and feathers of the Guinea-fowl. 

 In conformity with this arrangement, my fly-book 

 consists of three principal divisions, each of which 

 again consists of two compartments, one for hackles 

 proper, and the other for winged flies ; and I can 

 turn to the colour and suit myself with a hook of 

 the size wanted with the greatest facility. 



TWEDDELL. I have known some gentlemen who 

 were seldom successful in taking many trout, though 

 their assortment of flies was most extensive. They 

 have wanted perseverance, and have wasted their 

 time and lost their patience in fiddle-faddling 

 and changing their flies, when they should have 

 Kept fishing on. I seldom change my flies after 

 beginning to fish, in a stream which I am well 

 acquainted with, though I may sometimes keep 

 walking and throwing for two or three hours, and 

 scarcely catching so many fish. I have, notwith- 

 standing, continued using the same flies because 

 I was satisfied I could put on none more likely 

 till I found the fish in a humour to feed ; and have 

 filled my creel, when others less persevering, but 

 who had perhaps tried a dozen different flies, walked 

 home with their creels toom. I do not think it a 

 good plan for an angler always to be adding flies 

 to a stock which he is not likely to use up for years. 

 In looking over a large book of flies, belonging to a 

 gentleman who prided himself on their number and 



