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he, that made you, hath given us some little glimpse of your subdivine natures, properties, operations

Now, although this manner is always easy, it never degenerates into the free and easy as an English easy manner too often does, and thereby becomes anything but distinguee.

The Mayflies in Aldam's book, with their straight eyes, were tied by James Ogden of the well known Cheltenham tackle house who himself published a little book on fly-tying in 1879, and who must have been using the dry- fly forty years before that.