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Glaucus; Or, The Wonders of the Shore
·
Charles Kingsley
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The
consequence
of
this
ignorance
is
that
they
depend
for
good
patterns
of
flies
on
mere
chance
and
experiment;
and
that
the
shop
patterns,
originally
excellent,
deteriorate
continually,
till
little
or
no
likeness
to
their
living
prototype
remains,
being
tied
by
town
girls,
who
have
no
more
understanding
of
what
the
feathers
and
mohair
in
their
hands
represent
than
they
have
of
what
the
National
Debt
represents.
Hence
follows
many
a
failure
at
the
stream-side;
because
the
“Caperer,”
or
“Dun,”
or
“Yellow
Sally,”
which
is
produced
from
the
fly-book,
though,
possibly,
like
the
brood
which
came
out
three
years
since
on
some
stream
a
hundred
miles
away,
is
quite
unlike
the
brood
which
is
out
to-day
on
one’s
own
river.
For
not
only
do
most
of
these
flies
vary
in
colour
in
different
soils
and
climates,
but
many
of
them
change
their
hue
during
life;
the
Ephemeræ,
especially,
have
a
habit
of
throwing
off
the
whole
of
their
skins
(even,
marvellously
enough,
to
the
skin
of
the
eyes
and
wings,
and
the
delicate
“whisks”
at
their
tail),
and
appearing
in
an
utterly
new
garb
after
ten
minutes’
rest,
to
the
discomfiture
of
the
astonished
angler.
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