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it does not do so, and you require to have legs and wings 

 as well as body, and also in many flies distinct ribbing, 

 and all of their different colors, then you have very 

 nearly imitated the fly, and may as well be accurate as to 

 size, form, &c., so as to have an exact resemblance. It 

 must always be remembered that when a fly is imitated, 

 buzz fashion or with hackle only, it is not intended that 

 the wings should be dispensed with, but that the hackle 

 should, in the artificial, stand for both wings and legs in 

 the natural fly. 



That fish take the artificial fly for what I have stated 

 is very easy of proof. Fish any stream on which there is 

 the rise of any favorite fly, on which the fish are steadily 

 feeding, satisfy yourself what that fly is, and put it with 

 any two other flies on your cast. I do not' care in what 

 position you place the fly on which the fish are feeding, 

 whether as stretcher or as first or second dropper ; 

 if you have any success, you will find, with perhaps a 

 solitary exception, you will kill all your fish on that 

 particular fly, and that the other two are not looked at ; 

 and flies will kill at one time of the day, and not at 

 others, because the fish have changed their feeding to 

 another variety. I will here give another very easily 

 tried, and, I think, perfectly satisfactory test. 



