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as the May-fly, or green drake, in May and June. I esteem 

 it so highly, that I will give two other ways of dressing it. 



1st. BLACKER'S WAY. Wings, hen pheasant's wing- 

 feather or gray mottled partridge feather ; body, light and 

 dark hare's-ear fur, mixed with a little dark yellow mohair, 

 and ribbed with pale yellow silk ; legs, small brown 

 partridge back-feather ; tail, two fibres of brown mottled 

 mallard's feather. Hooks, 9 and 10. 



2nd. ELAINE'S WAY. Wings, mottled feather from the 

 tail of a partridge, or hen pheasant, set upright ; body, 

 light fur and red squirrel's fur mixed, and ribbed with 

 yellow silk ; legs, a grizzled dun-hackle, and tail whisks 

 of two fibres of the feather the wings are made of. Hook, 

 No. 6. 



When the natural fly was well out upon the water, and 

 trout taking it eagerly, I would fish with three of the 

 above patterns one of each on the casting-line at the 

 same time, using the largest for stretcher. E.] 



APRIL 



All the same hackles and flies that were taken in 

 March will be taken in this month also, with this dis- 

 tinction only concerning the flies, that all the browns 

 be lapped with red silk, and the duns with yellow. 



1. To these a small BRIGHT BROWN, made of spaniel's 

 fur, with a light gray wing, in a bright day, and a clear 

 water, is very well taken. 



2. We have too a little DARK BROWN, the dubbing of 

 that colour, and some violet camlet mixed, and the wing, 

 of the gray feather of a mallard. 



3. From the sixth of this month to the tenth, we have 

 also a fly called the VIOLET-FLY, made of a dark violet 

 stuff, with the wings of the gray feather of a mallard. 



4. About the twelfth of this month comes in the fly 

 called the WHIRLING DUN, which is taken every day, about 

 the mid-time of day, all this month through, and, by 

 fits, from thence to the end of June, and is commonly 

 made of the down of the fox-cub, which is of an ash 

 colour at the roots next the skin, and ribbed about with 



