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Dimbar years ago. I had three of them, and they had 

 lain in my book for years without being used : but if you 

 keep a fly long enough it is sure to come in useful at 

 last. Johnnie Macdonald 'joost liked the look o' 'em,' 

 and I 'joost' took Johnnie's < adveece,' and I did well with 

 them when I distinctly failed with other flies. They had 

 been dressed small, I conclude, for very young and late 

 patterns, if they were meant for the Thurso. 



No. 1. Tag, silver tinsel and orange floss ; tail, a top- 

 ping and tippet sprigs ; but, pale blue ostrich herl ; body, 

 two turns of light blue-green floss ; yellowish olive-green 

 pig's wool, with a bit of orange at shoulder ; silver tinsel ; 

 bright 'claret hackle ; wing, a tippet and saddle feather, 

 gold pheasant tail, and a good bit of wood-duck on either 

 side. 



No. 2. Tag, silver tinsel, lemon floss; tail, one top- 

 ping ; body, yellow one-third, the rest dark red (almost 

 claret) pig's wool ; silver tinsel ; medium blue mohair tied 

 on in locks at the shoulder for hackle, grouse hackle over 

 it ; under wing, a small tippet feather, over strips of bus- 

 tard, peacock, pintail, and dark orange yellow swan. A 

 very good fly. 



No. 3. The Denison is said to kill well at times there, 

 and as the late Speaker's brother, who is the godfather to it, 

 is a very successful fisherman there, we may conclude that 

 the information is pretty accurate. Tag, one turn of silver 

 twist, do. of claret, and ditto of yellow floss ; tail, one top- 

 ping, and a slip of wood-duck ; but, black ostrich ; body, 

 one half silver thread, and the other light blue floss ; silver 

 twist ; hackle, light blue (only down to the silver), blue 

 jay at the shoulder. So far the fly is a compromise 

 between the two doctors. The wing, however, is peculiar, 

 having a greasy look from the two gold pheasant rump 

 feathers in it. Imprimis, two tippet feathers, with a 

 jungle-cock on either side as long as the hook ; over these 



