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of common and golden pheasants, the black 

 cock, the cock-of-the-wood, the grey mallard 

 and barred teal, landrails' and starlings' 

 wings, hackles, natural and stained, of every 

 dye that nature or art could devise. On the 

 end leaves, the pockets were of good stout 

 morocco leather, and contained silkworm 

 gut of every quality and hue, gimp for pike, 

 a coil of brass wire, barbers' silk, Chinese 

 twist, a spare reel-line or two, and a case of 

 instruments, consisting of penknives, scissors, 

 files, pliers, and such-like, with a flat box 

 for cobblers' wax, leads, and India rubber. 



The Captain was sitting on the head of 

 the stair-cover before mentioned, applying 

 himself to the choice of a cigar : he also had 

 his material-book open before him, but it was 

 very much smaller than the Parson's pon- 

 derous tome, and contained not more than 

 one-fourth part so much : it was, in fact, 

 little more than judicious selections from the 

 judicious Hooker. It was modestly labelled, 

 " Elements of Fly-Fishing, " and was not so 

 large but that it would ride comfortably in a 

 fishing-basket, or, on an emergency, squeeze 

 into a pocket ; but, somehow or other, it was 

 always at hand, which the Parson's was not, 



