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if the whole is kept in a box with a few pieces of camphor. 

 No insect is so easily defied as the moth— and none, we 

 believe, does such an enormous amount of damage. 

 There are very few things that a moth can or will eat ; 

 but those that he does fancy are often valuable, and them 

 he destroys utterly— furs, flannels, feathers; but above 

 all feathers are his delight. He simply revels in the 

 careless fisherman's stock of flies, or fly-tying materials. 

 Yet he cannot penetrate through a leaf of this book, 

 though he be starving on one side with abundant plenty— 

 a groaning board of delicious feathers of most delicate 

 fibre on the other. He would perish miserably within 

 scent of paradise. Neither can he get through cotton 

 goods of any kind. 



How many anglers wail yearly over the destruction of 

 their flies by moths, and it may not be amiss to add here 

 how many anglers' wives compel their husbands to re- 

 place ruined furs at more than the cost of a dozen 

 pleasant fishing trips, when the simplest precautions are 

 absolute guaranty of safety. Place books, flies, feathers, 

 furs or flannels^ either in paper, gummed with mucilage 

 at the edges, or in bags of muslin or linen, or cotton 

 goods, of any kind, and no evil minded moth can ever 

 enter. If there are no moths or moth eggs in the fabric 

 or materials when put away, noue will ever get in. For 

 fly books, the simplest plan is to have a muslin bag a 

 little longer than the book, with a tape sewed fast an 

 inch or two from the mouth. Put the book in, twist 

 round the end of the bag tight, and tie the tape firmly. 

 That is all, and all mothdom will gnash its teeth in help- 

 less rage. Other things may be put in large bags of 

 brown paper, which of course must not have holes in it, 

 and the end can be gummed, or rolled over several 

 times — ^for moths will follow an opening, however nar- 



