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THE FLY FISHER'S GUIDE. 



fly of feathers and fur, to the unpleasantness 

 attendant upon baiting a hook with worm, mag- 

 got, or paste. The one will last during the 

 diversion of a whole day, and with care much 

 longer, whilst the other requires adjusting or 

 renewing, after every trifling nibble ; to say 

 nothing of the cruelty which attaches to the in- 

 troduction of a hook into the worm whilst living, 

 or the extraction of a gorged hook from the en- 

 trails of a ravenous fish. 



Such, indeed, are the pleasures and advan- 

 tages derived from this mode of angling, that 

 Thomson, Gay, Armstrong, Waller, and other 

 modern poets, have considered its praises as 

 worthy their talents and attention. 



