Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: not always hold in nature. The goose, that arrives at maturity in a few months, attains to a very old age ; and the carp and pike, both fast growers, have been known to live beyond a hundred years. WELSH SALMON FLIES. The flies ordinarily used by the native Welsh angler are very sober in colour, and few in number. The hooks they prefer are also large, and the execution altogether exceedingly coarse. Yet with these they manage to kill abundance of salmon in favourable weather. They affect to despise the gay and gaudy materials which enter into the composition of what are called Irish flies, without, however, being able to assign any better reason than that " they never tried any such, and are not used to them ;" the real reason, however, no doubt, is the difficulty of procuring any where but in large seaport towns the feathers of tropical and other foreign birds requisite for the purpose. We have now before us two specimens of the Teivi salmon fly, which were tied at Llandyssil, a village about thirteen miles from Cardigan, by one of the most celebrated anglers on that river. A SPRING FLY. Wings, the dark brown mottled feather of the bittern ; body, orange silk or worsted, with broad gold twist, and a smoky dun hackle for legs. SUMMER FLY. Wings, the brown mottled feather of a turkey- cock's wing, with a few of the green strands selected from the eye of a peacock's tail feather; body, yellow silk and gold twist, with a deep blood-red hackle for legs. If the artist, however, wishes to astonish the natives, he will not fail to carry with him a couple of dozen of O'Shaugnessy's Limerick, or Cox or Kelly's (of Dublin) Irish manufacture : these being known to kill fish, when the others will not stir a fin. He will be thus, ad utrumqueparatus. Bainbridge, in his clev...