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for all, with the cumbrous assortment of furs, silks, and 

 feathers with which the orthodox practice now loads his 

 tackle-box, and the thousand-and-one patterns of flies en- 

 joined by tackle-makers and angling writers as necessary for 

 each variety of fish, river, and season ? To the disciples of 

 Mr. PennelPs school this will be all changed. His three 

 typical trout-flies, which are new both in principle and con- 

 struction, can be made, he assures us, by the merest tyro ; 

 and both these and the salmon-flies dressed, of course, of 

 different sizes will readily stow away, with the materials for 

 making them, in the compass of an ordinary bait-box. The 

 1 glorious uncertainty' as to i which is the right fly/ and the 

 loss of precious time in experimental changes, are also obviated 

 under Mr. PennelFs system, which we look forward with 

 great interest to testing by the river-side on the first oppor- 

 tunity. The prospect seems almost too tempting to be 

 realized ; but it cannot be denied that the author's theories 

 and conclusions are the legitimate deductions from an argu- 

 ment logically and even severely worked out ; and we can 

 hardly conceive that Mr. Pennell, whose 'fame is on many 

 waters/ would peril his reputation by putting forward in so 

 deliberate a manner theories which he had not himself 

 thoroughly tested in practice." 



