Beresford Hall. 



THE SECOND DAY. 



(Continued.) 



CHAPTER VI. 



FISHING AT THE TOP CONTINUED FURTHER DIRECTIONS FOR FLY-MAKING 



TIME WHEN THE GRAYLING IS IN SEASON ROCK IN PIKEPOOL. 



Pise. jun. Boy ! come, give me my dubbing-bag here- 

 presently. And now, sir, since I find you so honest a man, 

 I will make no scruple to lay open my treasure before you. 



Viat. Did ever any one see the like ! What a heap of 

 trumpery is here ! certainly never an angler in Europe, has 

 his shop half so well furnished as you have. 1 



1 Every treatise on fly-fishing gives a long list of the materials with 

 which the angler should be provided. The lists are so various, that, taken 

 collectively, without even admitting repetitions, they would form a vocabulary 

 almost as large as our entire volume. Ronalds says, "the dubbing-bay 

 should contain everything in the world." Hofland gives a very judi- 

 cious list, with full instructions for making flies ; so does Rennie, in his 

 agreeable little volume, " The Alphabet of Angling." Payne Fisher 

 (Beckwith), in "The Angler's Souvenir," says, "The angler's dubbing-bag; 

 ought to contain fine wool, floss, silk, and mohair, of various colours, 

 brown, red, orange, lemon, and straw-colour, olive, willow-green, and 



