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methods at present in use in this country. It is adapted 

 to all sizes of flies, from the minutest midge to the larg- 

 est salmon-fly, though the greater comparative cost of 

 the latter, and the greater durability which it insures, 

 render it more important that it should be applied to 

 them. By the time this book is in print, or soon there- 

 after, it is hoped these hooks and flies tied thereon may 

 be had in this country. It rests, however, in great meas- 

 ure with the anglers themselves. Fishing-tackle dealers 

 are conservative as a rule; and though competition will 

 do much, more in the way of improvement and advance 

 is to be accomplished by outside pressure. If all 'who 

 approve of the foregoing, and desire to try these hooks, 

 will but ask their respective fishing-tackle dealers for 

 them, they will soon be on sale everywhere. 



