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CHAPTEE XI. 



HOW TO PREPARE BEFORE YOU COMMENCE MAKING FLIES FULL 



DIRECTIONS GIVEN HOW TO MAKE THEM. 



How to make flies is an art of itself, and practised 

 by many who are not fishermen ; which brings me 

 to the following conclusion, that you may be a 

 good fly-maker and yet a bad fisherman, but cer- 

 tainly not a good and an accomplished fisherman 

 and a bad fly-maker. You must overcome the 

 difficulty of making flies, or you will never know 

 the real pleasure a good fly-fisherman experiences 

 in the exercise of his art. 



To catch a fish with a fly of your own manu- 

 facture, or with a fly made by another person, 

 produces two opposite feelings; somewhat like 

 the pleasure or indifference which an admirer of 

 the fine arts experiences in beholding a picture 

 as an original or a copy, or the satisfaction or 

 dissatisfaction which the Divine experiences in 

 preaching another man's sermon or his own. It is 

 true, the two latter may both catch men, but the 

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