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receipt for brewing nectar as their formula. As many 

 may not recollect the original, it is here given, with 

 the substitution of a few words only : 



" Twos insects fed, 



Of old 'tis said, 

 Our salmon, trout, and grayling ; 



And man may brew 



His insects too, 

 The rich receipt's unfailing 



Take wool of pig, 



Jay's wing a sprig, 

 "With these and twist be blended 



A golden fleck 



From pheasant's neck, 

 And there's your "clipper" splendid !" 



Of the value of productions conceived in such a 

 spirit and executed on such principles it would be 

 out of all reason to doubt. The Dee salmon-flies, 

 however, though originating in similar formulae, lack 

 the meretricious finery which fascinates the fish of 

 other rivers. They are modest, unassuming creations, 

 which, like "beauty unadorned," please most. A cin- 

 namon-coloured body, wings from the tail-feather of 

 a gled or kite, a furnace hackle, tail, a few fibres from 

 the larger neck-feathers of the darkest red domestic 

 cock, and ribbing of fine gold twist or thread, may 

 serve to give an idea of a simple and favourite lure 

 of one of the best salmon-fishers I know on the Dee. 

 The body of another equally successful fly by the 



