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dare pledge our piscatorial reputation that they will 

 be found as killing for trout, during that month, as 

 any particular half dozen set down for the same 

 month "in the books." Writers who have formed 

 their lists of flies for each particular month of the 

 year according to the example of old father Walton, 

 have not attended to the alteration in the calendar 

 since his time, and do not seem to know that fish, 

 never having been made acquainted with the act of 

 G-eorge II., commanding the change, still observe 

 the old style. All the editions of Walton published 

 since this act for correcting the calendar that is 

 all from the date of Moses Browne's, anno 1759, 

 to the present time are consequently twelve days 

 too slow in their lists of flies for every month, and 

 require correction accordingly. It is surprising that 

 the editor of a late expensive edition of Walton, who 

 is so well acquainted with dates and calendars, 

 should have over-looked this most important fact, as 

 in such kind of annotation it might be presumed 

 that he would have found himself most at home. 

 Sir Humphrey Davy, who, in his " Salmonia," has 

 shown himself rather too prone to find a reason for 

 every thing connected with angling, has, in that work, 

 put forth some grave trifling, which he intended for 

 reasoning, on the subject of salmon taking a fly 

 whose original supposing the lure to be an imita- 

 tion of the dragon-fly they never could have seen; 

 and the result of his ratiocination is very like 

 "a conclusion wherein nothing is concluded." Ac- 



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