154 ADDENDA. 



MY home-spun book is written, which will suit but 

 few readers one saving point the description of the 

 angling flies, may be its preserver. Fond of flyfishing, 

 many of the former years of my fishing career I sought 

 in vain for such descriptions^ and never found them yet. 

 May these give to the enquiring angler the gratification 

 they would have given to me ; and should they lead 

 him not by slow and uncertain steps but with fore- 

 knowledge and a quicker pace, through the mazes of 

 the foundations of the gentle art, it will answer to my 

 purpose, and my end is gained. I need not say when 

 fish tug hard, and fleetly fly the angler's richest mo- 

 ments stick to the game ; but there are vacant mo- 

 ments, while by the side of the singing streams, which 

 give opportunities for seeing the Flies and Creepers in 

 their living freshness. I then would say, take a peep 

 into these scientific operations of Nature, which are so 

 intimately connected with the flyfisher's Art. 



