216 GOLDEN DAYS 



Duns laid out, along with Hares' Ears, 

 Coachmen, Alders, Blue Uprights, and 

 Grannoms. An " Artful Dodger " this, 

 dressed by a Devonshire keeper ; these 

 Heckum Peckums here were tied at a 

 manse in Skye ; and that bright fellow 

 came all the way from the Maine woods — 

 you'll find him labelled, " F. G. 's special, 

 Kainbow Trout " ; and, further, a whole 

 row of March Browns, both gentlemen 

 and ladies. My flats, you see, are self- 

 contained, replete with every up-to-date 

 contrivance ; each floor has its small comer 

 cubicle, piled high with camphor and 

 crushed " feverfew," lest fluttering thieves 

 break through and steal. 



The last and deepest draw^er reveals a 

 sparkling galaxy. All the loch flies : 

 Orange and Silver, Green and Teal, 

 Bronze Mallard, Grouse and Claret, the 

 Invictas, the Butchers, and fat Palmers. 

 The Nymphs with IVIayflies in companies, 

 both winged and hackled. Sundry 

 attempts in the fresh-water shrimp, and 

 here an old frayed fly of halcyon day, that 

 lured the father of all Breton trout, that 

 held through weeds below the boiling 



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