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long hairs of sables, or fitchet, and the wings, of a white- 

 gray feather of a mallard, dyed yellow, which also is to 

 be dyed thus : 



Take the root of a barbary tree, and shave it, and put 

 to it woody viss, with as much alum as a walnut, and 

 boil your feathers in it with rain-water ; and they will 

 be of a very fine yellow. 



I have now done with the Green-drake, excepting to 

 tell you, that he is taken at all hours during his season, 

 whilst there is any day upon the sky ; and with a made- 

 fly I once took, ten days after he was absolutely gone, 

 in a cloudy day, after a shower, and in a whistling 

 wind, five-and-thirty very great trouts and graylings, 

 betwixt five and eight of the clock in the evening, and 

 had no less than five or six flies, with three good hairs 

 a-piece, taken from me in despite of my heart, besides. 



12. I should now come next to the Stone-fly, but 

 there is another gentleman in my way, that must of 

 necessity come in between, and that is the GRAY-DRAKE, 

 which in all shapes and dimensions is perfectly the 

 same with the other, but quite almost of another colour, 

 being of a paler, and more livid yellow, and green, and 

 ribbed with black quite down his body, with black shining 

 wings, and so diaphanous and tender, cobweb-like, that 

 they are of no manner of use for daping ; but come in, 

 and are taken after the Green-drake, and in an artificial 

 fly kill very well ; which fly is thus made, the dubbing of 

 the down of a hog's bristles, and black spaniel's fur, 

 mixed, and ribbed down the body with black silk, the 

 whisks of the hairs of the beard of a black cat, and the 

 wings of the black gray feather of a mallard. 



And now I come to the STONE-FLY ; but am afraid 

 I have already wearied your patience ; which if I have, 

 I beseech you freely tell me so, and I will defer the re- 

 maining instructions for fly-angling till some other time. 



VIAT. No, truly, Sir, I can never be weary of hearing 



