50 GOOD IMITATIONS DECEPTIVE, 



In the last week of the month of October, of 

 last (1846) year, a young relative of mine, making 

 drawings of the church and seat of the Earl of 

 Gainsborough, at Exton, Rutlandshire, sent me a 

 fly that had alighted on his paper as he was sketch- 

 ing out of doors. He wanted to know the name 

 of it. When the fly arrived some boyish anglers 

 were., with me, and I told them to find amongst 

 my artificial flies any one that they thought re- 

 sembled the natural one in shape and colour. 

 Without more than necessary delay, and at the 

 first guess, they picked out the right imitation. I 

 then told them to look for the same fly in Alfred 

 Eonalds's " Fly-fisher's Entomology." They did 

 so ; found the drawing and the imitation, and pro- 

 nounced the natural fly "the gold-eyed gauze 

 wing." They were right, and if boyish eyes 

 looking through nature's microscope were right, 

 think you fish would be wrong ? 



Now this fly, of which I am speaking, has a 

 green body, with a slight yellow cast in it, four 

 transparent, shovel-pointed, reticulated wings, 

 lying flat over the body, the two under wings 

 being shorter than the upper, and these latter 

 longer than the body of the fly. The head and 

 eyes appear brightly burnished. You have seen an 

 imitation cigar with its burning end deceive the 

 most knowing connoisseur. You have seen a glass 

 filled with simulated brandy and water, invitingly 



