190 TROUT FISHING 



and the whole of the evidence transcribed 

 is from Mr. Frederic M. Halford's Bry 

 Fly Entomology. 



Thinking on what I had read in the 

 stately and authoritative volume, I re- 

 called a picture in a book on Angling, 

 The author has crept on hands and knees 

 towards a pool in which there is a rising 

 trout, and is in the act of throwing over 

 it a dry fly. Does this sportsman, so 

 earnestly expounding the fashionable 

 doctrine we have examined, know the 

 illuminating confession of a certain barber 

 familiar to all who frequent the neigh- 

 bourhood of St. James's ? " O, yes, sir," 

 said the barber confidingly : " the lotion 

 certainly does good ; but it does so in 

 what may be called an indirect manner. 

 You will see that the instructions on the 

 bottle say, ' To be well rubbed in.' The 

 truth is, sir, it is not the lotion, fragrant 

 and cooling as it is, that does the work : 

 it is the rubbing in." Similarly, if our 

 very serious fisherman in the picture 

 catches the big trout, he will owe his 



