274 THE ANGLER S GUIDE. 



The peacock's plumes thy tackle must not fail, 



Nor the dear purchase of the sable's tail ; 



Each gaudy bird some slender tribute brings, 



And lends the growing insect proper wings : 



Silks, of all colours, must their aid impart, 



And every fur promote the fisher's art. 



So the gay lady, with expensive care, 



Borrows the pride of land, of sea, of air — 



Furs, pearls, and plumes the glittering thing displays 



Dazzles our eyes, and easy hearts betrays. 



CHAP. in. 



A List of Palmers, or Hackle Flies, with and without 

 Wings, for Flyfishing in every Month during the Season, 

 beginning with April. 



Many Anglers object to the palmer being termed a 

 fly, because a palmer, in its natural state, is first a 

 worm or caterpillar, some of them being covered with 

 a rough woolly substance, from which they are called 

 wool-beds, in some places j others have a number of 

 legs, and from their continual rambling over branches, 

 leaves of trees, cabbages, &c. they receive the general 

 name of palmers or pilgrims ; they are of various co- 

 lours, some red, some black, and others of variegated 

 colours 5 those found in gardens, about the leaves of 

 bushes and vegetables, are, generally, supposed to be 



