1 6 ANGLING. 



principle by which they are directed. A certain 

 form, size, or colour of artificial fly, we must con- 

 tinue to use the name for want of a better, is 

 assuredly more captivating than another; it be- 

 comes in some way more deceptive, more delusively, 

 as well as exclusively, adapted to the appetite of 

 the finny tribes; but we repeat again, it is not 

 because it resembles one fly more than another, 

 because no fly swims at any time against the cur- 

 rent of a raging river, several inches under water, 

 and no artificial fly, worked as it usually is by the 

 angler, exhibits the particular aspect of any insect 

 whatsoever. If the gentle reader thinks otherwise, 

 we are sorry for it, and shall be glad to read his 

 reasons, either privately, or in print. Our chief 

 consolation is, that each of us will continue to kill 

 trouts to the end of (his or our predestined) time, 

 the practice of both, we doubt not, being perfect in 

 its way, the main difference consisting in a theo- 

 retical opinion, which we have thought it right to 

 express, but which fortunately will not affect the 

 actual art of angling, if otherwise skilfully achieved. 



But to conclude, as the Rev. Mr. is 



wont to say, when fearfully far the distance to his 

 latter end. One person thinks, that his artificial 

 lure resembles the insects which he sees upon or 

 near the surface of the water, and that his success 

 in art results from that relation. Reader, art thou 

 the man? If so, be pleased to look again. Out 

 with your pocket-book, or bring it to us, and we 

 will gladly undeceive you by the shew of actual in- 

 sects in all their pride of beauty, and multitudinous 



