ADDENDA. 



I should also have added that my theory about the 

 short-sightedness of fish laterally in the water has special 

 application to running water, in which the line of vision 

 is much broken by the disturbances in the stream. The 

 same result follows when the surface of still water is 

 broken by a ripple caused by a breeze. Fishermen well 

 know that their chances of sport are then enhanced, the 

 simple reason being, that the fish cannot then see either 

 them, or their fly, so clearly as in still water. Through 

 perfectly clear and still water, fish may be able to see 

 somewhat indistinctly some little distance laterally, as 

 through thick plate-glass, but when the water is broken 

 their plate-glass becomes to them like ground-glass. 

 At least that is my theory, and I think fishermen will 

 find that adoption of it, and attention to it, will influence 

 their sport Pages 81 and 82 



Since the above pages were sent to the press, I have' 

 learnt just a trifle about the entomology of Indian fly- 

 fishing, which I must reserve for a future edition, if, to 

 use an entomological simile, my little book ever lives to 

 throw off its present poor chrysalis state, and become a 

 beautiful butterfly Pages 98 and 99. 



