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Clough would say, while the summer snipes flitted whistling up the shallow before us, and the soft, south-eastern clouds slid lazily across the sun, and the little trout snapped and dimpled at a tiny partridge hackle, with a twist of orange silk, whose elegance for shape and colour reconciled Claude's heart somewhat to my everlasting whipping of the water. When as last:
I knowed it I knowed it! cried Natty, when both deer and hounds were in full view; the buck has gone by them with the wind, and it has been too much for the poor rogues; but I must break them of these tricks, or theyll give me a deal of trouble. He-ere, he-ere shore. with you, rascals shore with you will ye? Oh! off with you, old Hector, or I'll hackle your hide with my ramrod when I get ye.
Justus had, in his quiet way, felt jealous of the Basel Weaving Mission, his own converts being unhandy; but Athon Daze had latterly induced some of them to hackle the glossy silky fibres of a plant that grew plenteously on the Panth Hills. It yielded a cloth white and smooth almost as the TAPPA of the South Seas, and that day the converts were to wear for the first time clothes made therefrom.
He early discovered the cheering fact that trout were to be had in the glass-green pools; and so spent hours awkwardly manipulating an improvised willow pole equipped with the short line and the Brown Hackle without which no mountaineer ever travels the Sierras. His bound elbows and the crudity of his tackle lost him many fish. Still, he caught enough for food; and his mind was busy.
But as it is, such immortality as I can I bestow on thee here, in small return for all the pleasant days thou hast bestowed on me. Bah! I am becoming poetical; let us think how to tie an alder-fly. The common tie is good enough. A brown mallard, or dark hen-pheasant tail for wing, a black hackle for legs, and the necessary peacock- herl body.
On six feet of this superior article I fixed three artificial flies, a simple brown hackle, a gray body with scarlet wings, and one of my own invention, which I thought would be new to the most experienced fly-catcher. The trout-fly does not resemble any known species of insect. It is a "conventionalized" creation, as we say of ornamentation.
We took our departure from the friendly halls of Drumlanrig this morning after breakfast and leave-taking. I trust this young nobleman will be "A hedge about his friends, A hackle to his foes." I would have him not quite so soft-natured as his grandfather, whose kindness sometimes mastered his excellent understanding. His father had a temper which better lumped with my humour.
They made their camps in many places, delaying several days here, and one night there, exploring the high solitudes together, and sinking deep in their romance. Sometimes when he was at work with their horses, or intent on casting his brown hackle for a fish, she would watch him with eyes that were fuller of love than of understanding.
"Thou dost speak as if thou hadst known him." "Indeed, any cock of the hackle is essentially commonplace." "But he carried the sword of a gentleman?" "Thou dost mean he carried a gentleman's sword." "Dost thou know who he is, Janet?" "I have not inquired." "In other words, thou didst see him. And 'twas I am sure Adrian Cantemir." "'Twas none other." "I will go down now and see their Graces."
The tale is told of repeated casts, under the overhanging boughs, in the shadow of the big rock, where the water swirls and rushes: how the brown hackle went skittering over the pool, or dropped as lightly as thistledown on the edge of the riffle, the sudden rise to the fly, the rush for deep water, of the strain on the rod when it throbbed like a thing of life, sending a delicious tingle to the finger tips, the successful battle, and the game brought to the net at last.
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