Rensselaer Republican, Volume 15, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 October 1882 — Trout-Flies from Love-Tokens. [ARTICLE]

Trout-Flies from Love-Tokens.

A most extraordinary story of troutflies made from human hair was related to me by a friend of mine who is a manufacturer of sportmen’s materials. There used to be a gay young fellow in this city who made love to every young girl he came across. He must have been rather successful, for he always managed to secure a lock of hair from each one of his conquests. This young man had an equally strong passion—trout fishing. He loved to fish for the speckled beauties pf the brook and muse on the many beauteous maidens among whom he divided the treasures of his heart. An idea struck him; he w'ould have a fly constructed out of each lock of hair he possessed. He took his collection oi silky love-tokens, gleaned from perfumed tresses, to the manufacturer of sportmen’s materials, and requested him to make the deshed flies. When finished he placed them in his fishing poeketbook, each one attached to a card with the name of the girl and the date of the gift. His subsequent fishing was a long dream of romance. Even in their broiled state the trout had a halo of memory about them which gave them a flavor for which Lucullus would have forfeited an empire. He brought every conceivable shade, oolor, and kind of hair to be made into flies—black, light and dark brown, gray, white, golden, yellow, auburn, and red, curly, wavy, and crinkly. In less than three years my friend made him 150 trout-flies, which would be at the rate of a new girl every week. He was asked one day which colored flies he preferred. In reply he said rpd flies were preferable to any of the others, and thpt in# future he intended to confine his attentions to young ladies whose heads glowed with flame-like hues. In proof of tills ha married a girl with red hair, and had ten flies constructed out of one of her tresses. For some little time after his nuptials his heart remained true to his Aerypolled bride" and his red-haired flies. One day, however, he brought my friend a lock of hair of a far deeper hue of auburn, and instructed him to make two flies, as he found, that the fish would no longer bite at his wife's liair. His better half discovered the change of bait, and began to smell a rat. Tp make scatters worse, he one day went to his office leavingUhe key of his private desk at home in the lock. The lady examined the premises and discovered the abundance of flies, to which he had only the previous day added his latest conquest. The wife returned to her mother that very morning, instituted proceedings for divorce, and gained her suit, the flyhook being produced as evidence in court. If you search the court records you will find full confirmation of what I have just told you. —New York Star