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the proper mode of working in them, which arti- 

 ficial fly-fishing in the manner I practise teaches, 

 he has little else to acquire from the beetle. At 

 first the novelty is agreeable, but soon a certain 

 tameness in its use palls on one there is a same- 

 ness, a want of variety about it, which places it 

 infinitely inferior in point of spirit to the artificial 

 fly or the worm. 



