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dwell may be "a piece of reed about an inch 

 long," or "made of small husks, and gravel, and 

 slime, most curiously made of these, even so as 

 to be wondered at;" or, again, the envelope is 

 fashioned of "little pieces of bents, and rushes, 

 and straws, and water-weeds, and I know not 

 what, which are so knit together with con- 

 densed slime, that they stick about her husk or 

 case, not unlike the bristles of a hedgehog." 



A fly that will not whip out easily is an ex- 

 pensive fly to buy, though generally cheaper in 

 the end than those that do, and if in addition 

 to durability it possesses the other cardinal 

 features of seductiveness of form and pattern, 

 then its cost mounts up accordingly. We know 

 of one blue-blooded affair that after having 

 caught nineteen good-sized trout was at last 

 accounts still in good working order. These 

 aristocrats among flies are tied only by expert 

 practical anglers, and, when purchasable, from 

 two to three dollars and more a dozen is not an 

 exorbitant price to pay for them. The "25-to 

 50c.-per" kind are copied by girls more or less 

 faithfully, at the rate of one in about every five 

 minutes, from samples made by someone who 

 really possesses some knowledge of the subject. 

 Of course there are all grades, from the most 

 haphazardly-slapped-together "bunches of feath- 

 ers," up through some really good commercial 

 specimens generally made by members of some 

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