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his productions. Fishing within hail of his 

 cheery voice one morning, he told me he was 

 "going in for green bodies," having for a day 

 or two before been loud in his commendation 

 of claret ones. In this, as in many other fishing 

 "fancies," his adoption of uncommon colours 

 was more for the sake of extracting a little fun, 

 from the serious way his brother-fishermen were 

 wont to discuss the difference, than from the 

 fact of its being at all material. 



One of our club-members, a gallant Admiral, 

 once expressed his horror to me, when he found 

 that the bushes overhanging the bank of a 

 famous stream had been cut rather lower than 

 he liked. His principal objection was, not that 

 they no longer screened the fisherman from the 

 sharp eyes of the salmon a most important 

 consideration ; No ! but that they no longer 

 were as large a congregational haunt as before 

 for swarms of natural flies that fell into the 

 water, to the delight of the salmon, ever on 

 the look out for them ! Now, being a very 



