208 FISHING GOSSIP. 
proportion of large fish and such Grayling as seldom rise at 
a fly, viz. 2 Ibs. to 3 Ibs. weight each. I have sent out a 
much greater number of these baits this year and last season, 
than usual. 
“T trust Gentlemen will nor ENCOURAGE these Deadly 
baits in their Grayzine Streams, or there will be a sad fall- 
ing off in the fly-fishing, which is the most legitimate bait. 
“Last year a Club of Anglers met for three days’ Artificial 
Grasshopper fishing in a Grayling stream, in part of our RIVER, 
the Teme River. They took upwards of 5 ewt. of Grayling 
by fishing with this deadly contrivance. The season for using 
this bait is all the year, but best in the Autumn and Winter 
for Grayling. For other FisH, when the FisH are best in 
season. 
* * * * 
“Prices, 6s. the half-dozen, with 6 feet of gut complete 
for use. 
“ Apply to FREDERICK ALLIES, Pisciculturist, etc.” 
This is very funny, is'nt it? 
Well, but this is not all. Mr. Allies is by no 
means content with the fame to be acquired for his 
grasshoppers by the limited circulation of a hand-bill 
amongst mere private acquaintances ; his light must 
be more widely diffused—as it were from a candle- 
stick,—so he republishes the substance of this Epistle 
to the Gentiles in the form of a letter to the Field 
newspaper—mice, mountains, and all. 
It might have been imagined that this’ double 
publicity would have satisfied the vanity even of “an 
Inventor and Maker,” and that the soul of an Allies 
would have found rest. It would not, perhaps, have 
