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capon also, which hangs dangling on his sides next to 

 the tail. The fifth, is the yellow or greenish fly, in 

 May likewise : the body made of yellow wool ; and the 

 wings made of the red cock's hackle or tail. The sixth, 

 is the black-fly, in May also : the body made of black 

 wool, and lapped about with the herle of a peacock's 

 tail : the wings are made of the wings of a brown capon, 

 with his blue feathers in his head. The seventh, is 

 the sad yellow-fly, in June : the body is made of black 

 wool, with a yellow list on either side ; and the wings 

 taken off the wings of a buzzard, bound with black 

 braked hemp. The eighth, is the moorish-fly ; made 

 with the body of duskish wool ; and the wings made 

 of the blackish mail of the drake. The ninth, is the 

 tawny fly, good until the middle of June : the body 

 made of tawny wool, the wings made contrary, one 

 against the other, made of the whitish mail of the wild 

 drake. The tenth, is the wasp-fly, in July ; the body 

 made of black wool, lapped about with yellow silk, the 

 wings made of the feathers of the drake, or of the buzzard. 

 The eleventh, is the shell-fly, good in mid-July ; the 

 body made of greenish wool, lapped about with the herle 

 of a peacock's tail, and the wings made of the wings of 

 the buzzard. The twelfth, is the dark drake-fly, good 

 in August ; the body made with black wool, lapped 

 about with black silk ; his wings are made with the 

 mail of the black drake, with a black head. Thus have 

 you a jury of flies, likely to betray and condemn all the 

 trouts in the river.* 



I shall next give you some other directions for fly-fishing, 

 such as are given by Mr. Thomas Barker, a gentleman 

 that hath spent much time in fishing ; but I shall do it 

 with a little variation. 



* The reader is not to adopt for his use any of these flies. By the 

 word " mail," we must understand " mottled." The mottled 

 feathers of the mallard of several hues are still used for the wmgs, 

 legs, and tails of flies. There are few feathers more useful. E. 



