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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (May 1, 1948)
Anglers Abound- Season Soon By LeJEUNE GRIFFITH Take 10 or 12 dyed yellow polar bear hairs or a golden pheasant crest, add 4 European widgeon Varied throat cheek feathers, toss in 2 jungle cocks, 4 or 5 peacock eyed tail fibers, a bunch of white bucktail, some orange floss, and silver tinsel, and you have, not a tasty stew for Macbeth's witches, but a Gray Ghost for your fly col lection. You can spot these fly-tying en thusiasts a mile off, because months before the May 1 opening date of the fishing season, they be gin worrying about getting a sup ply of emu fibers, or polar bear hairs, scarlet ibis feathers or pea cock herls. You can see them plot ting larceny every time they see a woman’s hat sporting an ostrich feather. Anglers Blamed If the neighbor’s poultry shrieks at night, it’s probably caused by an eager angler depriving some cock of his prized neck feathers. If a piece of soft fawn hair from your red fox disappears, chances are the ly-tyer is whipping up a Hendrick son, which calls for the “fawn col ored fur from a red fox belly.” Guard that Gold Coast monkey jacket also, because maybe he’s making a Green Drake, which calls for “three, only, hairs of silver monkey.” Nothing seems to be safe from the grasp of these ultra-eager fish ermen. First, all the pure silk thread in the house disappears and ends up as binding on the bamboo pole. Then the family art brush turns up in a pot of varnish for use in refinishing the pole. Embroid ery floss and yarn are the next cas ualties, then snips from fur pieces and plumes. Barnyard Next When this fanatic has stripped the house of its useful things, the barnyard is next. The ducks and geese lose part of their wings, the goat and calf are lucky to escape with some of their tails intact. Not content with these victims, the cir cle spreads at home and abroad to include the tails of the lynx, jackal, seal, badger, squirrel, woodchuck, white fox, white caribou mane hairs, partridge feathers, the “pale off-white fur from the flank of an Emerald Classifieds I* All classified is payable *•» advance at the rate of four cents a word the first insertion^ two cents a word thereafter at the Emerald Business Office. Classified deadline is 4:00 p.m. the day ttior to publication. Australian oppossum,” “grey mole fur mixed with a small amount of red seal fur,” starling wing feath ers, and light blue chatterer feath ers. Suppose this madcap Izaak Wal ton takes a hook, ties on a tip of silver tinsel, a tail of Greek spar row feathers or the black, white and deep maroon wing shoulder feather of a Venery pheasant. Then at the base of the tail he makes a bump of yellow ostrich fiibers and then a body of silver tinsel ribbed with gold tinsel. For wings he adds some white polar bear hair with a FOR SALE: New brown wool suij size 38, for $20. Inquire 2190 Am. azon, Apt. 12, across from store (125) OSC VET, wife, child want to rent furnished apartment or trailer; months starting June 12. Phor.e 1322-R. (126) APPLICATION PHOTOGRAPHS; One day service. Call Nolph'i Salon. Phone 5847-W. Larawaj Bldg. (150) golden pheasant crest on top with shoulders represented by feathers from a light blue roller jay. Then suppose on top of all this he tells you it’s a Mary Pickforj See what I mean? .-Jo-lWp haalbsl much sleep, And could hardly see to drive; “When lights came at her, There was a terrible clatter. Now she’s lucky to be alive !, Yes—night-driving Bo-Peep is lucky! Drowsy driving can be fatal. Fatigue—lack ol sleep—too many hours behind the wheel will dull any driver’s senses. And three out ol every five highway deaths happen after dark. When you drive at night, be alert—always able to stop within your headlight range. Keep your windshield clear—never look directly into blinding headlight glare. If you are over-tired, pull off the road and rest. Spare a few seconds to save your life! SPEND r^fiii^SECONDS SAVE^pyLIVES 9