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“fly,” or whatever it be right to call it, has been 
fished much more than we believe it to have 
been fished as yet, it is not possible to judge of 
this. After all, this is the point on which the 
verdict for or against this particular lure will 
turn. If it be found much more deadly than 
“fly,” commonly so named, then it will have to 
be ruled out of place on a river or on a beat 
where fly only is allowed. On the other hand, 
it is not to be supposed that anybody will ob- 
ject to a lure as fantastic as the angler pleases 
to make it, provided he does not catch fish 
with it. S 
The objects at which salmon will rise, when 
they are in a complacent mood, are many and 
various. The writer was informed by a boat- 
man on the Tay, not more imaginative than 
most of his class, that he had seen a salmon 
rise at an apple floating on the surface of the 
stream. Thus emboldened, the writer related 
the story told by the fishers of the Bidassoa, in 
Spain, that on that frontier river the approved 
bait for the salmon was a mouse, and_.on the 
following morning his dour Tay boatman ap- 
peared with a mysterious small parcel wrapped 
in paper. The wrapper being unfolded revealed 
a mouse, which the boatman had trapped in his 
house on the previous evening, and had con- 
veyed to the river with the object of putting to 
the proof the question whether the salmon of 
the Tay were similar in their tastes to their 
brethren of the Bidassoa. It has to be admitted 
that the test was far from conclusive, even in its 
negative results, for though the mouse, being 
attached to the hook, floated down the current 
with its tail and little legs moving in quite an 
attractice way under the influence of the stream, 
the fish for the time being were in that unre- 
sponsive state of mind or appetite in which they 
declined to look at any lure. As a test case, 
therefore, this failed in decisive issue; but cer- 
tainly the bait looked quite as alluring as those 
of more recognized kinds, and there is no par- 
ticular reason to doubt the statement of the 
Pyrenean fishermen that they were in the habit 
of using a mouse as a lure, nor the implied in- 
ference that it was sometimes found successful. 
The salmon’s appetite in fresh water seems to 
be poor, unless it be a kelt; but it is not at all 
exclusive, and there is no cause for thinking 
that a mouse would come amiss to it, even if it 
was not deceived as to the nature of the bait 
which was being offered to it. To return to the 
subject of the mixture of feather and body 
which has caused so much acrimonious discus- 
sion, it is to be supposed that some decision 
will be reached before long as to whether or 
not it conforms to the legal definition, which 
still remains to be framed, of a salmon-fly. In 
the meantime, our own opinion is that it would 
be difficult to rule out of court on the ground 
that it has much less resemblance to any true 
kind of fly than most of the salmon “flies” 
which are in common use; but for all that, we 
cannot think that it is a lure which a man of 
any nice sentiment or delicate conscience would 
be willing to employ on a beat where his per- 
mission to fish was restricted to the use of “fly 
only.”’.—London Spectator. 

THE SCARCITY IN HUNTERS. 
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cent in the deer shipments for the first ten days 
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October of 1907 is no less delightful a month 
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albeit rather undersized and largely does, ex- 
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