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of others into such a question as this, had 

 not the criticisms upon my flies been an 

 indirect attack upon myself, as what has 

 been said about them practically means 

 that they ought not to be used by any one 

 who calls himself a sportsman. If this is 

 true of the flies, what could not be said 

 of their inventor ? For this reason I take 

 the best means I can find to defend myself, 

 and what better defence could there be 

 than the published practices of two men 

 whose sportsmanlike qualities have never 

 been doubted? 



What is legitimate trout-fly has, I be- 

 lieve, never been clearly defined ; but I 

 hope I shall not be presuming too much 

 in saying, that if the lure in question is 

 the imitation of an insect which can and 

 does fly, made of the ordinary materials 

 used in fly-making upon one hook, this lure 

 has a perfect right to be called a legitimate 

 trout-fly. 



It will be found that my Corixa fulfils 

 these conditions. 



There is one thing that I wish particu- 

 larly to impress upon my reader, and this 

 is that, in using the imitations of Corixce 



