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two or three kinds of flies. And as to carrying, as 

 many do, a huge book of flies, nearly as large as a 

 family bible, for common Trout streams it is like a 

 beginner in drawing, who uses twenty cakes of 

 colour or more, where a quarter the number, if 

 properly managed, would answer the same purpose. 

 The Piscator, however, has a right to take what he 

 pleases. He may go to the river side with a book 

 of this sort, or even twelve pounds of lead in his 

 pocket ; they will both, perhaps, be equally neces- 

 sary. But who has a right to find fault ? If he is 

 determined to go well laden to the river why let 

 him. With regard to hooks, I have always found 

 the Irish ones far superior to ours. The best, I 

 believe, are bought in Limerick. 



" Now I have given the outline as to tackle, I 

 will proceed as to throwing ; not in my chair, with 

 a pen and ink ; but with a pencil and a book, on 

 the banks of the river. 



"THBOWitfa A FLY. I am just returned from 

 the river (and, by the way, not badly repaid for my 

 trouble), and as near as I could there bring the 

 matter to paper, shall now say as follows : In throw- 

 ing a fly, raise the arm well up, without labouring 

 with your body. Send the fly both backwards and 

 forwards by a sudden spring of the wrist. Do not 

 draw the fly too near, or you lose your purchase for 



