THE ENTOMOLOGY OF THE ERNE. 171 



to do this, you must necessarily carry your 

 own materials." 



" And so you must carry your own ma- 

 terials, and that, whether you tie yourself or 

 employ others to tie for you. Our friend 

 the Scholar may throw a good line, and hook 

 a good fish, when he" has got some cleverer 

 man than himself to point out the throws, and 

 may land him, too, with Slievan to gaff for 

 him ; hut he will never be a fisherman as long 

 as he lives ; no, nor ever turn out such a Kill- 

 many that " And the Parson held up 



his work to the light, admiring his workman- 

 ship, and drawing out, with the point of his 

 needle, two or three fibres of the hackle that 

 had been looped down in finishing offthe head. 



The artificial entomology of the Erne is far 

 more brilliant and beautiful than that of any 

 other river, excepting, perhaps, the spring- 

 flies of the Shannon. Its flies, compared with 

 those of the Scotch waters, or even those 

 of its neighbour river the Bundraos, put 

 one in mind of the gay plumage of the 

 tropics, by the side of an English night- 

 ingale or skylark. 



Before the arrival of our fishermen, it 

 might be said to consist of two distinct 



