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it brings out Nature's colour, as when it 

 makes the flame of a candle brown beyond 

 a doubt. Let's to work again. The 

 world is brown, I tell you ! " 



Although he was in a whimsical 

 mood, there was a real idea amid the 

 banter. Few men have studied trout 

 and their ways so scientifically as Sir 

 Herbert Maxwell has, and the theory 



which Lord A stated half in jest is 



not more surprising than one which Sir 

 Herbert has advanced in seriousness. It 

 is that, if not absolutely colour-blind, 

 salmon and trout do not pay much atten- 

 tion to the difference between one hue 

 and another. As those who have read 

 his interesting writings will remember, he 

 derived this theory from observations on 

 the Tweed. Never having seen a living 

 insect resembling any of the salmon-flies 

 in use. Sir Herbert Maxwell could not 

 quite believe that it mattered whether it 

 was by a Jock Scott, or a Thunder and 

 Lightning, or a fly of any other pattern, 

 that the salmon were tempted. His 



