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of pintail or wood-duck on either side, and as many top- 

 pings as you can pile on seven or eight or more if you 

 like. These are often tied on with the turn bent upwards 

 at Ballyshannon, and it gives them more play in the water. 

 Kingfisher's feathers on either cheek, and blue macaw ribs; 

 black head. This, however, is decidedly a topping par- 

 son, a sort of bishop or archbishop parson, in fact, and not 

 for every-day use ; we only bring him out when the feel- 

 ings of the salmon, having resisted all ordinary persuasive- 

 ness, require to be very strongly appealed to. But if you 

 substitute a golden olive hackle, with a medium claret 

 above that, and blue jay at shoulder, no breast topping, 

 and reduce the number of toppings in the wing, and tie 

 into the wing a couple of gold pheasant saddle feathers 

 over the tippet feather, a capital working parson a sort 

 of curate is produced, fit for hard every-day work. 



We now come to the bourgeois, and begin with one 

 whose very name is ensanguined. 



The Butcher. This is a very general favourite ; it kills 

 almost wherever there are salmon. In the Awe, the Orchy, 

 the Brora, the Naver, the Thurso, the Helmsdale, the 

 Annan, and the Taw and Torridge, and one or two Welsh 

 rivers, it is a prime favourite. Tag, gold twist and dark 

 orange floss; tail, yoije topping; but, black ostrich herl; 

 body, two or tin- . turns of claret, ditto of medium blue, 

 ditto of red, and the rest of dark blue pig's wool ; broad 

 silver tinsel; medium red claret hackle; gallina on shoulder ; 

 under wing, a tippet and gold pheasant rump-feather, over 

 them strips of brown mallard, bustard, peacock wing, wood- 

 duck, and blue and yellow swan strips ; black head. 



Here is another plan of dressing the fly sent me by a 

 friend, who is a very skilful brother of the craft, being no 

 less than the gentleman who used to write those chatty 

 articles in ' Bell's Life,' under the nom de plume of 'Pin.' 

 I give his own directions. Mixed wing, rich long jungle- 



