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wrong about the Dry Fly ; that you do 



not seem to understand what Lord G 



was trying to say in its praise ; and that 

 it is a pity we treated his book just as if 

 we thought that because a man's a Tory 

 he can't be right even about trout-fishing. 



I must say I agree with H^ ." 



In a way this was pleasant hearing. 



Mr. L V H , who had been 



arraigning the article in H. W. M.'s 

 journal, is the rising son of a great Liberal 

 family, and it was chivalrous of him to 

 protest when he considered that a political 

 opponent had been ill-used. It was 

 necessary to admit, also, that I had not 



viewed Lord G 's book quite without 



what might be considered prejudice. For 

 a good many years the Dry Fly had been 

 a craze. Writers in the journals of sport 

 were always penning delirious rhapsodies 

 about it ; and the very ladies you took in 

 to dinner, most of whom did not know 

 one fly from another, enlarged upon the 



subject. Lord G had gone even 



further. Not content with expressing his 



