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A little dry-fly oil-bottle with a brush through its 

 cork is needed also, this to make the fly float better. 

 The novice can have it filled if he likes with odour- 

 less paraffin. Ordinary paraffin does equally well 

 so far as efficiency goes, though it is not pleasant 

 stuff to handle. Further, a little wash-leather pouch 

 with two pockets, to hold casts and gut, is useful, 

 while a fly-box of some kind is a necessity. Fly- 

 boxes are very various, but after trying most of 

 them I have taken to using the simplest, a japanned 

 oblong tin box lined inside with soft felt, into which 

 I stick the flies in rows. They do not blow away 

 .as from some boxes, and they are easily seen and 

 put in or taken out. The lining gets worn after a 

 time, and it can then be renewed. A box about 

 6in. by 4in. is big enough to begin with. Another 

 plan which I adopted at one time was to stick the 

 flies into little round discs of paper and carry them 

 loose in a box, half a dozen flies or so to each disc. 

 The device is by no means a bad one, but I think it 

 ruffles the flies up by shaking them about. If the 

 novice has any of the casts he bought for wet-fly 

 fishing left, they will do for the dry fly ; if not, he 

 will want some more, tapered from medium to finest 

 undrawn, and two yards long. He will also want 

 some more points in addition to those he possesses, 

 which are 4X to wit, finest undrawn and 2X. After 



