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PREFACE. 



I know not how to apologise for submit- 

 ting a Second Edition of this little Book to 

 the notice of the Angling few, after the 

 appearance of so many by clever writers, 

 except the many calls I had for It, and a 

 sincere desire of Improving farther upon a 

 craft that has not hitherto been clearly pro- 

 mulgated by a real practitioner ; conse- 

 quently my great object is to benefit and 

 amuse my readers, by giving them something 

 practical, which at the present time may be 

 particularly wanted by those who love to 

 make their own flies, whose wants, without 

 doubt, will be found sufficiently supplied In 

 ^ this book ; the tyro will appreciate it as 





