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1. We have, besides, for this month, a little dun, 

 called a whirling dun (though it is not the whirling dun 

 indeed, which is one of the best flies we have) ; and 

 for this, the dubbing must be of the bottom fur of a 

 squirrel's tail ; and the wing, of the gray feather of a 

 drake. 



2. Also a bright brown ; the dubbing either of the 

 brown of a spaniel, or that of a red cow's flank, with a 

 gray wing. 



3. Also a whitish dun ; made of the roots of camel's 

 hair ; and the wings, of the gray feather of a mallard. 



4. There is also for this month a fly called the thorn- 

 tree fly ; the dubbing, an absolute black, mixed with 

 eight or ten hairs of Isabella-coloured mohair ; the 

 body as little as can be made ; of a bright mallard's 

 feather. An admirable fly, and in great repute amongst 

 us for a killer. 



5. There is, besides this, another BLUE DUN, the 

 dubbing of which it is made being thus to be got. Take 

 a small-tooth comb, and with it comb the neck of a 

 black greyhound, and the down that sticks in the teeth 

 will be the finest blue that ever you saw. The wings 

 of this fly can hardly be too white, and he is taken about 

 the tenth of this month, and lasteth till the four and 

 twentieth. 



6. From the tenth of this month also, till towards 

 the end, is taken a little BLACK GNAT ; the dubbing 

 either of the fur of a black water-dog, or the down of 

 a young black water-coot, the wings of the male of a 

 mallard as white as may be, the body as little as you 

 can possibly make it, and the wings as short as his body. 



7. From the sixteenth of this month also to the end 

 of it, we use a BRIGHT BROWN ; the dubbing for which 

 is to be had out of a skinner's lime-pits, and of the hair 

 of an abortive calf, which the lime will turn to be so 

 bright as to shine like gold : for the wings of this fly, 



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