58 THE SALMON FLY. 



May this luck be your luck, brother Fishermen, as it has been mine ! It 

 will only cost you 10 ! 



For enumerating these feathers for wings, I have mentioned those in 

 general use ; but so far from seeking to limit the area of choice, I would 

 rather urge and stimulate the student to seize on, and trim up and try 

 those unproclaimed materials that may fall to his hand, and by their 

 appearance, promise to be of service to him. In this respect, the amateur 

 fly-tier is apt to ignore the fact that he does not do as much as he ought 

 to do for the advancement of experimental research. He surely has the 

 power and means to push further and further onward into that ocean of 

 knowledge, of which we have, as yet, but gathered a few shells upon the 

 margin. The principles to guide him in exploration and selection are 

 readily furnished by a thorough acquaintance with those materials which 

 have already won their way into public appreciation and minister to that 

 pride in honest fly-work, which, at the present period, is certainly one 

 characteristic of the British Craftsman. 



