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orl that is not tinged with green, and 

 a dark grizzle hackle over it. 



The GREEN DRAKE. 

 Appears about the twenty- fifth of May, 

 and continues near a month, it is ufed 

 from nine o'clock in the morning until 

 funfet. Upon fmall dreams it is an ex- 

 cellent fly for bobbing, upon a hook 

 No. 5 or 6. Its bodv, which is an 

 inch long, is made of barber's filk, rib- 

 bed with a bittern's hackle, it has four 

 wings, that (land nearly upright, they 

 are a pale yellow, with a beautiful green 

 tinge, which are made of a mallard's 

 feather ftained. It has a forked tail, 

 which may with equal fuccefs be omit- 

 ted, but if you wiili to be particular 

 in imitating it, two fibres of the dark 

 feather of a cock pheafant's tail is the 

 nearer! refemblance I am acquainted 

 with. When a bittern's hackle cannot 

 be procured, the body mufl be ribbed 

 with fine claret-color filk, and a pale 

 ginger hackle wrapped thrice around un- 

 der the wings, 



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