62 THE GRASSHOPPER, 



A real Grasshopper, Cabbage-grub, maggot, 

 or worm, is to be put on the point of the 

 hook. 



To vary the above, omit the straw ; and to 

 vary fig. 1., add the straw. 



For fig. 3. Plate III., prepare the wire, and 

 in all respects proceed as in the fabrication 

 of fig. 1.; the material for the body, and the 

 lead being straight, making the only differences ; 

 save, indeed, that it should be shorter than 

 fig. 1. The body is to be formed of white silk 

 chenille. 



A good variety is with a body of a kind of 

 pale, dirty-yellow, icorsted chenille. 



These two are probably taken for the Wasp- 

 grub. 



But a most excellent variety, and with 

 which, perhaps, on the whole, reckoning Trout 

 as well as Grayling, I have had the best sport, 

 is with a body made of a narrow strip of wash- 

 leather, wound on like the chenille; which, 

 when wet, bears no despicable resemblance to 

 the Caddis tribe. 



These may, like the Cabbage-grub (fig. 2.), 



