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you. But if you think fit, because I am afraid I am 

 too troublesome, to refresh yourself with a glass and a 

 pipe, you may afterwards proceed, and I shall be ex- 

 ceedingly pleased to hear you. 



Pise. I thank you, Sir, for that motion : for, believe 

 me, I am dry with talking : here, boy ! give us here a 

 bottle and a glass ; and, Sir, my service to you, and to 

 all our friends in the south. 



VIAT. Your servant, Sir ; and I'll pledge you as 

 heartily ; for the good powdered beef I eat at dinner, 

 or something else, has made me thirsty. 



[To Mr. Cotton's list of flies for May, add the following : 



No. 1. Body, gold-coloured floss silk ; wings and legs, 

 light brown grouse hackle, from the neck of the bird. 

 Hook, 10. This is the grouse hackle, and is a good summer 

 fly at low water. 



No. 2. Body, same as before ; wings, gray mottled 

 partridge tail-feather ; legs, wren's tail-feather ; tail, 

 two small fibres of brown mallard. This fly should be 

 dressed small and fine, and the body may be varied with 

 orange ; and for the Irish rivers, with green floss silk. It 

 is an excellent summer fly, and good for grayling in autumn. 



No. 3. Wings short, and to stand erect, of the yellow 

 feather found under the wings of the thrush and red-start ; 

 body, light buff fur ; legs, a very short fibred yellow-dun 

 hackle ; tail, two fibres of the same. Hooks, 12 and 13. 

 This is the little May-fly, Yellow Sally, or Castle-fly. It 

 appears a week or ten days earlier in May than the Green- 

 drake, and kills well of mornings and evenings. 



No. 4. BLUE-BOTTLE. Wings, starling's clear wing- 

 feather, to lie flat ; body, stone-blue floss silk, to be thick 

 and short, and tipped with gold tinsel ; black hackle under 

 shoulder for legs. Hooks, 8, 9, and 10. Trout take it 

 freely on fine evenings, as a sort of dessert after a full 

 dinner on the Green-drake. It is a good summer fly for 

 chub. 



No. 5. THE WASP-FLY. Wings, hen pheasant's wing- 

 feather ; body, light orange mohair, wound in separate 

 circles from tail to shoulder, between circles, a ribbing 

 of black ostrich haii ; legs, three turns at shoulder of a 



