114 best's art of angling. 



must be long, and ribbed about with green silk, 

 or rather yellow^, waxed with green wax, and 

 three long hairs for his tail, from those off a 

 sable's. 



Or, the Maif-flij maybe dubbed after this me- 

 thod. The body of seal's fur, or yellow mohair, 

 a little fox-cub down, and hog's down, or light 

 brown from a turkey carpet, mixed together, 

 warp with green and yellow, pale yellow, or red 

 cock's hackle under the wings, which are to be 

 the same as in the other method of dubbing it. 



As 1 shall not mention the z^'een-drcike\\\\^w I 

 come to describe otlier flies taken in the month 

 of May, I will here give you every particular 

 concerning it. He comes on the zoattr the liven- 

 tieth of that month, and is taken all day long, but 

 best from two to four in the evening, and kills most 

 psh from the end of May to the ninth of June. 



now TO BYE TUB MALLARD S FEATHER 



YELLO W. 



Take the root of a Harbary tree, and shave it, 

 and put to it xioodij viss, with as much alum as a 

 walnut, and boil your feathers, in it with rain 

 water, and they will be of a fine yellow: or ^ei 

 a httle 7i^eld and rocou, and boil your feathers with 

 tlxeni, and it will answer the. same purpose. 



