ANGLING. 



brother of our own, whose merits in that and many 

 other matters need not our feeble *praise. We 

 mean no offence, but if any created creature, from 

 an angler to an angel, alleges that any trout could 

 have a foreknowledge of our invention, or that of 

 our gifted brother, and that it views our flies as 

 " old familiar faces," we blush not to say he lies 

 under a huge mistake. 



Nevertheless, as we know that the progress of 

 truth, though slow, is certain, and having no desire 

 to proselytise, we merely commend our views to 

 the considerate reader, and shall now proceed to ex- 

 plain a few practical principles of the art, as usually 

 received and followed. 



The great secret in fly-fishing, after a person 

 has acquired the art of throwing a long and a light 

 line, is perseverance, that is, constant and con- 

 tinuous exertion. Fish are whimsical creatures, 

 even when the angler, with all appliances and 

 means to boot, is placed apparently under the most 

 favourable circumstances. Let him, however, com- 

 mence his operations with flies, which, upon general 

 principles, he knows to be good, for example, a 

 water-mouse body and dark wing, hare-ear and 

 moorfowl wing, red hackle and teal or mallard 

 wing. It may frequently happen that for an hour, 

 or even two hours, he will kill nothing ; but then 

 it will as often happen, that for another couple of 

 hours, he will pull them ashore with a most pleas- 

 ing celerity. 



Awake but one, and, lo, what myriads rise ! 



