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next cast a yard to the right over the third fish. 

 He, too, came up and fastened. He went straight 

 to weed, but, holding him quite Hghtly, I soon 

 had the satisfaction of feehng him beat himself 

 free of the weeds, and presently I netted him out. 

 The fly was quite soaked, and I tried to change it, 

 but it was too dark, and so I knocked off, having 

 risen three trout to the Orange Quill in three 

 successive casts. 



Some years ago I dressed for my friend, M. Louis 

 Bougie, of Paris and the Fly-fishers' Club, a winged 

 imitation of the blue-winged olive, which is at 

 certain seasons almost the only dun on the chalk 

 streams of Normandy, and he can kill an occa- 

 sional fish on it. Its dressing is immaterial, for I 

 never could do any good with it myself ; but one 

 evening I was fishing the Varennes with M. Bougie, 

 when there came on a good fall of blue-winged olive 

 spinner. My friend caught a trout with his 

 pattern, and by the aid of a spoon I got from its 

 stomach, and turned into a glass, three large 

 greenish-amber spinners, with the distinctive three 

 setae ; and next morning in a capital light I tied 

 an imitation of these insects, spent-gnat-wise, 

 with seal's fur body of palish yellow-green olive of 

 appropriate mixture of furs. Next evening we 

 each got fish with these imitations, M. Bougie 

 more than I, and I have always been promising 

 myself that I will put it up one blue-winged 

 olive evening on the Hampshire rivers ; but 



