mournfully brings back the philosophy of a busy brain which, like the 

 sun by night withdrawn from mortal eye, no longer pursues its track- 

 less flight in exploring the mysteries of our art. 

 But who has not lost a friend ? — who indeed ! 

 Haslam — poor fellow ! — used to advise his guests to take notice 

 of a certain individual, and doubtless that same individual deserved 

 all the study and admiration enjoined by the King of Carlogie in his 

 bright Highland home. But for all its eloquence and adaptation, his 

 written instruction pinned up in the hall did but slightly indicate the 

 way in which that wonderful wader (familiarly called the " B," after 

 the little insect that wings its way anywhere) taught " the art of order 

 to a peopled kingdom." 



But tlie " star wader " of Rothes, puts to shame the wildest 

 wonders — the mightiest magic of Deeside knights. For among the 

 most astounding antics in waders, according to Archibald Forbes in 

 his letter (20 June, '91) to the Field, this remarkable performer gets 

 through inaccessible depths of the Spey by treading water, and in 

 addition to this, casts a long line on the way! 



The secret, however, of the performance of tliis feat was not re- 

 vealed, or what a time we should all have ! The amusing and un- 

 daunted writer — in his capacity as a " dead certain " correspondent in 

 the art of war where he may justly have been regarded as " facile 

 princeps " — found himself slightly out of his depth by the side of a 

 salmon river, where only his fervid imagination can have saved him, 

 and his friend, from being whelmed beneath its swirling current. 



In ordering wading stockings get them made six inches longer 

 than usual, or so that they reach the top of the legs. 



After use turn waders, of either sort, inside out at once, and 



