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hook, and each were recognised as useless out- 

 side their own area. Cotton hung a fat-bodied 

 London fly in his parlour window to laugh at, 

 and on the other hand admits that his slender 

 north country flies proved little use to a Lon- 

 don friend. Different flies were used too for 

 night and day. Barker tells a matchless story 

 of fishing from sundown till six in the morning 

 to provide trout for a dinner his patron, Ad- 

 miral Lord Montague, was giving, and how 

 he caught a mighty dish on three flies, helped, 

 it must be admitted, by lobworms, a white fly, 

 a red fly and a black one, 'the white flye for 

 darkness, the red flye in medio and the black 

 flye for lightnese.' Barker, by the way, calls 

 them palmers, but they had wings, as the dress- 

 ing shows. When told that the fish were wanted, 

 Barker 'went to the door to see how the wanes 

 of the aire were like to prove,' and returned 

 answer that he doubted not, God willing, but 

 to be provided at the time appointed. Having 

 caught his trout, he tells with gusto how he 

 cooked them : trouts in broth, four dishes of 

 calvored trouts, whatever they may be, marion- 

 ated trouts, broiled fried stewed and roast 

 trouts, trout pies hot and cold and so on, over 

 a dozen dishes. One would like to have been 

 at that dinner, and one would like to have seen 

 the packed basket which Barker brought home 

 that summer morning. Venables says that flies 

 dressed on double hooks set at an angle of a 

 quarter of a circle were used for tender 



