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together with the best materials, from wherever on earth 
they are to be obtained. Or he may be supplied in Boston, 
Montreal, Quebec, or at Rome, Rochester, or Mumford, New 
York. 
In addition to an extensive assortment of flies, the angler 
should carry silks, wools, mohair, duffings, and feathers of va- 
rious colors, gold and silver threads and tinsels, fine hooks, 
and selected gut, so that he may occasionally extemporize a 
cast of flies, which, though not so finely tied, may combine 
size and colors attractive for the finny epicures which show 
themselves fastidious about putting in an appearance. This 
course is pursued by many experienced anglers, whom, I may 
justly add, are great bunglers at tying a fly or properly 
mounting a hook. Half a dozen lessons from Pritchard 
Brothers, or from one of the fly-tyers for Andrew Clerk & 
Co., could scarcely fail of being useful to the student of con- 
templative philosophy. 
SECTION SECOND. 
SELECT ARTIFICIAL TROUT-FLIES, 
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No. 1. Black Gnat.—Black ostrich-feather body, wings of pale starling’s feather, drab 
tail and antenne. 2. Red Ibis.—Red body, wound with gold or Vv 
hackle and tail, red ibis-feather wing 3. Wilson’s Professor.—Yellow gut body, 
mounted by M‘Bride, of Mumford, N. Y.; red ibis tail headed with gold tinsel, brown 
hackle, gray mallard wing. 4. Stone Fly.—Green drake wing and hackle, drab body 
and tail. 5. Pritchard’s Stone Fly.—Composition body, drab wings, tail, and anten- 
ne. 6. Cinnamon Fly.—Orange body, ash-colored wings, brown hackle and tail. 
7. Green Drake.—Silver body, tipped with gold; short black hackle, black head, 
brown tail; wings and shoulders of green drake feather. 
ilver cord; brown 
