

met with during its appearance, warm- 

 weather inviting them to the fliores in 

 fwarmSj from whence the gentled breeze 

 wafts them to the dream, where ever/ 

 fith that feed on flies are eagerly em- 

 ployed in devouring them until fatiated, 

 when the larged trouts retire to their 

 holts, where they generally pafs fome 

 hours, confcquentlv little fport can be 

 expected with artificial flies, while the 

 trout do fo gor^e themfelyes with the 

 natural ones. But on a windy day, 

 which prevents them from appearing, 

 being tender infects, the artificial fly is 

 generally ufed with fucccfs. I have 

 frequently tried it with mod advantage 

 after the natural ones have dtfappeared,- 

 even fo long as a fortnight. 



It is a fmall fly ; the body is made" 

 with lead-color filk, a little waxed, the 

 wings of a pea-hen or brown hen's fea- 

 ther, with a plover's top wrapped thrice 

 around under them. 



The 



