CHANGING FLIES 



'HIS is a pleasant, even a delightful 

 way of passing the time while on tin* 

 pool and also of bringing on an 

 attack of nervous prostration* Tou 

 are confident that by changing the fly the fish 

 which leisurely rolled up at the Silver Gray a 

 few moments ago will surely succumb to the fas- 

 cinations of the Jock Scott Tou pull out your 

 fly-book, and choosing a beautiful specimen of the 

 same, you hand it to Smith to see if he thinks the 

 size is correct Then you pass it back to Henry, 

 as you want his opinion of the hook* After brush- 

 ing his fingers across the feathers until yon think 

 they are ready to fall off, he decides that the point 

 does turn in H little, so another new bright decora- 

 tion is added to his hat A second time the fly-book 

 is resorted to, and a Jock Scott similar in every 

 way to the first is decided to be a little im- 

 provement on theother ; so, fasteningit to the leader, 

 away it speeds on its journey, while you gently 

 draw it across the current and breathlessly await 



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