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and frequently supplied that worthy with 

 necessaries ; of which his own book contained, 

 no doubt, a goodly store, only that, inva- 

 riably at the very time it was most wanted, 

 it was reposing securely some twenty or 

 thirty miles from the scene of action, having 

 been left behind on account of its bulk 

 and weight. And no one could say that the 

 Captain's flies were less killing than those of 

 his companion, or that the particular ma- 

 terial required to produce any desired effect 

 was ever deficient. 



The Squire's stores were contained in a 

 walnut-tree box. They were intrinsically 

 worth twice as much as those of both his 

 companions' put together, but their arrange- 

 ment was something like that of a midship- 

 man's chest, where everything is at the top 

 and nothing at hand; so that, with stores 

 enough to have fitted out a tackle-shop, he 

 was continually borrowing the commonest 

 articles. 



" I cannot see the use of your bothering 

 yourselves with all these things," said the 

 Scholar, whose collection of salmon-flies, 

 amounting to some hundreds, exhibited spe- 

 cimens of every manufacture in the three 



