CHAPTER VIII 



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VIAT. So, Sir, I am now ready for another lesson, so 

 soon as you please to give it me. 



Pise. And I, Sir, as ready to give you the best I can. 

 Having told you the time of the STONE-FLY'S coming in, 

 and that he is bred of a cadis in the very river where 

 he is taken, I am next to tell you that, 



13. This same STONE-FLY has not the patience to 

 continue in his crust, or husk, till his wings be full grown ; 

 but so soon as ever they begin to put out, that he feels 

 himself strong (at which time we call him a jack), squeezes 

 himself out of prison, and crawls to the top of some stone, 

 where if he can find a chink that will receive him, or can 

 creep betwixt two stones, the one lying hollow upon the 

 other, which, by the way, we also lay so purposely to find 

 them, he there lurks till his wings be full grown, and there 

 is your only place to find him, and from thence doubtless 

 he derives his name ; though, for want of such convenience, 

 he will make shift with the hollow of a bank, or any other 

 place where the wind cannot come to fetch him off. His 

 body is long, and pretty thick, and as broad at the tail 

 almost as in the middle ; his colour a very fine brown, 

 ribbed with yellow, and much yellower on the belly than 

 the back ; he has two or three whisks also at the tag of 

 his tail, and two little horns upon his head ; his wings, 

 when full grown, are double, and flat down his back, of 

 the same colour, but rather darker than his body, and 

 longer than it, though he makes but little use of them ; 

 for you shall rarely see him flying, though often swimming 



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