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the other dressed with a hackle such as I have described j 

 in a tumbler of water, and then move them up and down. 

 The cock hackle remains unsympathetic and rigid, while 

 there is decided "movement" in the softer hackle. The 

 only objection to the soft hackle that I can see, is, that 

 it does not last long ; and the man who makes this objec- 

 tion, need not expect my sympathy, if he is not so successful 

 as he might be, when trout need some catching. 



Finally ; the thinness of the body, consisting as it does 

 only of the tying silk, is a feature vastly in its favour, in 

 wet-fly fishing. 



