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speed, is to send to those you know make them, 

 either in town or country. I prefer to buy them 

 near the localities I am about to fish, march 

 dun, dothril, hare's lug dun, and black palmer, 

 these, of course, on different sizes. With these 

 I would set off to fish almost anywhere. T have 

 seen changes of flies answer, while others who con- 

 tinued the sport without any change do equally 

 well on the whole clay, there being atmospherical 

 changes during which no fish will look up ; and 

 again, there are hours of feeding, in which they 

 will snap and take anything and colour of fly. 

 The study of where fish lie, and the places to be 

 at a certain time of day, are most important 

 things to every angler, and never is an old rule 

 more exemplified than in this case, that 



Experientia docet. 



And now, I would leave off, and affectionately 

 recommend you to pursue this healthy exercise 

 at any spare time you may have, from March to 

 September. How delightful to find yourself on 

 the bank of some beautiful river, your spirits and 

 hilarity flowing with cheerfulness, and your mind 

 not corroded with the cares of life, f not slothful 

 in business,' having been the Christian maxim of 



