24 Salmon Fishing. 



As I had no opportunity of trying them 

 then, the season being near its close, I made 

 a point of doing so in the following visit ; and 

 so successful was I with two of these flies, 

 that the human judge was beaten out of the 

 field (or water, more properly) in his verdict, 

 when it came into conflict with that of my 

 finny friends, who mangled them to such an 

 extent, as to leave scarcely a vestige of the 

 old material on the hooks. 



Let anyone move a salmon-fly, with mixed 

 wings, backward and forward in a tumbler of 

 water only, and whether the fibres be put on 

 singly, or in patches, he will see how beauti- 

 fully they keep expanding, and collapsing in 

 the most natural way possible. 



I will give another instance, to show how 

 little the opinions of human beings, on the 

 subject of flies, coincide with the tastes of 

 friend Salrno-Salar himself. The friend of 

 mine I lately alluded to, has in his large 

 heterogeneous collection a patriarchal-looking 



