July ii, 1908.] 
ness and systematic precision, a marvel of ex¬ 
actitude. I would not be the owner of that fly- 
book for untold gold. I should be dead in a 
fortnight from the overwhelming strain of try¬ 
ing to live up to it. It is the materialization of 
the virtuous dictum “A place for everything and 
everything in its place,” bound in calfskin. Here 
is a page of partridge hackles, all carefully 
graded, in whose midst the intrusion of a snipe 
bloa would be regarded as little less than sacri¬ 
lege. There is a section devoted to seventeen 
dressings of the March-brown, duly assorted in 
; shades and sizes; yonder are the various bloas, 
the discovery among which of a stray green 
drake would be sufficient to give the owner a 
fit. That book is a Sunday school object-lesson; 
it belongs to a man who when away upon a holi¬ 
day will write home and tell you that if you 
look in the bottom of the left corner of the top 
right-hand drawer of the bureau in his bedroom 
you will find a key which will unlock the left- 
hand cupboard in his writing desk, and if you 
look on the ton shelf but one, about halfway 
back and near the right-hand side, you will find 
! in a blue envelope under a railway time-table a 
recipe for fly-dressers' colorless wax. and he 
will be much obliged if you will forward it to 
him as early as possible. That man would ex¬ 
perience more chaste delight in putting down 
a miserable fingerling with the correct fly pre¬ 
sented in the most approved scientific style than 
in playing and landing a rollicking 2 -pounder, 
risen and hooked in a casual way, whose capture 
he had not previously worked out with mathe¬ 
matical nicety to a satisfying number of decimal 
• points. You would readily believe this if you 
saw his fly-book. 
In marked contrast with the last named is the 
fly-book of a particular angling chum of mine, 
the keenest fisherman I ever knew. Neck or 
nothing, all or none when the impulse is on 
him, his fly-book is eloquent of headlong energy 
spasmodically bestowed in divers directions—a 
; higgledy-piggledy mass of droppers thrust be¬ 
tween two leaves, three or four blank pages, a 
wholesale hatch of orange partridge, two 
more blank _ pages, a "tangled maze of 
gut and hair, and so on. He dresses 
his flies at the last minute before start¬ 
ing off from home in the morning; he scrambles 
through his breakfast with a fly vise in one hand 
and his fork in the other; lie mingles, as it were, 
the sporting bracken clock with the matutinal 
bacon, and. figuratively, kisses the family good- 
1 bye with the end of the tying si.lk still m his 
I mouth. There is no happier angler than he, if 
j there is no happier-go-lucky fly-book than his. 
Then there is the typical fly-book of the man 
who likes to be prepared for every emergency, 
and who if he had lived in the old stage-coach¬ 
ings day would have made his will before start- 
| ing off for the next parish but one—the man 
| who carefully packs into his fly-book everything 
I he is likely to want, goes over the list to see 
that he has not missed anything, and then pro¬ 
ceeds to ram in a hundred additional articles 
; that it is just possible he may want, though un¬ 
likely. It is a plethoric fly-book. Fly-book? 
I The word falls far short of carrying the correct 
impression; it is a portmanteau. Gut, hair, 
feathers, fur. wax, silks, scissors, watchkey, five 
, hundred patterns of flies, spinning tackle, a spare 
■ bootlace, cigarette papers, hooks and triangles 
j galore, dyspepsia tabloids, copper wire, and 
J hobnails—the marvelous volume contains them 
; fllj and the only really astonishing thing about 
j it is that when you retire to the double-bedded 
■ room at the fishing inn at night the owner does 
not produce his nightshirt from it. Blessings 
on that fly-book! I for one have reason to be 
grateful for its store of comforts in a time of 
; desperate need. Two or three years ago I was 
j nshing in company with its owner, when the 
soles of my old brogues “fetched l^ose.” With 
such equal excellence had they originally been 
s ^ wn > that. like the deacon’s wonderful “one-hoss 
1 shay,” they tumbled to bits simultaneously. 
Scarcely was one sole flapping distressingly 
every time I lifted my foot, when the other was 
' hanging by no more than a few stitches at the 
; toe. . I was three miles from home, and in an 
1 an gnish of despair, when my companion noticed 
my sorry plight, and out came the universal 
I Provider, equal to the occasion. As he un- 
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