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like the butterfly's ; they fly clumsily like the 

 butterfly, but far higher in the air, and turn up 

 their tails, at the end of which they have three 

 hairs near an inch long, of a brown colour; from 

 which they are called the green-drake. 



To dress this fly nicely, either for salmon or 

 large trout, you must have a long shanked gilse 

 hook, for the wings a grey mallard's feat her dyed 

 yellow ; the soft down of a swine dyed the same 

 colour by a silk-dyer ; camel's and bear's hair, 

 or urchin's belly ; mix them well, and to imitate 

 the ribs or joints of the fly, use green silk, with 

 yellow wax, or rather yellow silk with green wax, 

 and for the whisks of its tail, the beard hairs 

 of a black cat, spaniel's tail, &c. 



My angler is to understand me, in my direc- 

 tions how to dress these flies, as both for salmon 

 and trout; only those for salmon much larger, 

 and to six or nine hairs, according to the river ; 

 those for trout to three, four, or five. 



The cod-bait fly, commonly called the whirl- 

 ling dun, from his colour and manner of flying, 

 is in size much the same as the green-drake. 

 This fly fixes her eggs to the underside of a flat 

 stone, that lies hollow, in, or by the side of a 

 stream, in little brooks or becks, about the latter 

 end of May, or beginning of June. The small 

 gravel, brought down with the stream, sticks to 

 the glutinous matter, with which the eggs are 

 fixed to the stone, and m'ake a beautiful case or 

 husk, which grows as the eruca grows, sticking to 

 the stone all the winter, and till April, and some- 

 times May ; when you may see eight or a dozen 

 of them, with their heads towards the stream in 



