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appear never to be at rest, and the number of arti- 

 ficial baits that have emanated from their brains is 

 truly surprising. Buell- spoons, kill- jacks, phantom- 

 minnows, and, and but their name is legion, and 

 certainly many are very deadly. 



Boxes of gut, feathers, hooks, lines, rods, lie ranged 

 around ; the farther up the store you advance the more 

 you see, till the brain becomes mystified, in wondering 

 what portion of the earth did not assist in supplying 

 a portion of the collection. Through the credit of 

 Messrs. Brown Brothers and Co., of New York and 

 London, the Clerks import direct the well-known bam- 

 boo of Calcutta, and the more tough and tapering 

 bamboos of Japan. India and Japan furnish their 

 silk lines, and the tropical climes of both continents 

 are ransacked to supply them with feathers. 



An hour has already flitted past, still not one- tenth 

 of the curios have been seen, but here comes the 

 junior partner ; his eye is sharp and keen ; you may 

 bet that he can strike quick and certain when a trout 

 rises at his fly. It is so ; and not a brook near New 

 York has not over and over again yielded her brilliant 

 beauties to fill his basket. 



On reaching the office at the top of the store we find 

 the head of the firm, who is not one particle less genial 

 than his confreres. From him I learn that the split 



