326. SALMON AND TROUT. 
cially when there are other anglers on the stream. If you 
‘establish a raw’ on your foot, don’t lay it up and ‘swear at 
large,’ but wash the place carefully, and clip away the loose 
skin. Then mix the white of a fresh egg with a few drops of 
brandy, and lay it over the bare place with a feather. When 
the spirit evaporates—as it will in a few minutes—a fine trans- 
parent film will be left. Repeat this process three or four 
times, and you will have a perfect artificial skin, which will 
neither wash off nor rub off. I have done a long day on the 
moors with such a false cuticle on heel and toe without pain or 
even inconvenience. 
But your fly fisher must be fed as well as clothed ; and 
though by virtue of his healthy calling he ought to make a sub- 
stantial breakfast, somewhere towards 2 P.M. (generally the 
slackest time of the day) he will feel that Nature abhors a 
vacuum. Something he must have in his pouch 
Quod interpellet inani 
Ventre diem durare. 
What that something shall be must depend on his taste and 
the state of the sideboard. But if he inclines to the sweet 
simplicity of sandwiches, let him make them of ham sliced very 
thin, and overlaid with marmalade. The combination may 
seem startling, but will be found most palatable, particularly 
in warm weather. A layer of unpressed caviare, again, with a 
squeeze of lemon and a sprinkling of mustard and cress, though 
less substantial, has a pleasant relish. 
As for fluids, during many years, when J was well up to the 
mark as a pedestrian, I found nothing better in a long day by 
moor or river side than an occasional mouthful of cold tea. 
But I would mention for the benefit of those who, like myself, 
are in the down-hill of life, that I have found a great resource 
aga‘nst fatigue in a pocket flask of the ‘Vin Mariani.’ It is an 
extract of the ‘coca leaf,’! the sustaining power of which (see 
Kingsley’s ‘ Westward Ho !’) has been for centuries known to 
1 Erythroxylon coca, 
