234 ANGLING. 



a look of " soft sauder" about him, though true to 

 the back-bone, and his steel barb, which neither 

 breaks nor bends, will by no means melt in any 

 fishes mouth. His wings may be made of moor- 

 fowl feather, narrow and lank in form, and his body 

 is constructed of hare ear fur, with an innocent 

 harmless-looking little tuft of yellow worsted just 

 above the tail. This kind was invented by an in- 

 genious gentleman of Nova Scotia, but is ready to 

 serve any where, and does his duty well in the 

 " ould country." 



None of these flies are Hackles, properly so called. 



THE GRIZZLY KING. 



Not so the Grizzly King, who is a hackle par 

 excellence. They call him Coomberland in the nor- 

 thern parts of merry England. His wings are 

 broad and burly, formed of any undyed feather, 

 bearing narrow natural bars of black and white, 

 and he bristles with many stripes from head to 

 heel, his dark green body being wound about with 

 a grey or mottled hackle, and terminated by a fiery 

 tail, turned up in what naturalists call an ensiform 

 manner, that is, somewhat after the fashion of a 

 sword. 



*-' What seems his head, 

 The likeness of a kingly crown has on." 



