SUBAQUEOUS HAPPENINGS IN ART 15 



that on the occasion spoken of the trout which I 

 got were on the verge of giving up bulging in 

 favour of the winged dun. But I was not satisfied. 

 Then the recollection of a visit to the Tweed 

 struck me with the notion that on that water all 

 the trout practically bulged all the time, and that 

 with their wet-fly patterns Tweed anglers were 

 able to give a good account of themselves, and I 

 searched among Tweed patterns for the nearest 

 analogue to Pope's Green Nondescript. I thought 

 I found it in Greenwell's Glory, if varied by ex- 

 changing for the hen blackbird wing a starhng 

 wing. The likeness was not very exact, but it 

 was close enough to experiment on. The point 

 that I wanted to achieve was to combine with 

 the colours of Pope's Green Nondescript the type 

 of dressing special to the Tweed Greenwell's Glory. 

 Rough, slim upright wings, well split, and stand- 

 ing well apart when wet, made of several thick- 

 nesses of feather so as to absorb water, and not 

 to give it up readily when cast ; body spare, con- 

 sisting of the waxed primrose tying silk only, 

 closely ribbed with fine gold wire, and one or at 

 most two turns of a furnace hen's hackle with 

 ginger points, no whisk (whisks only help flotation), 

 and a rather rank hook to take the fly under. 

 The type of dressing is to be found applied to all 

 his patterns in Webster's " Angler and the Loop 

 Rod." 

 Whether it was because I had faith in my 



