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encounter is a natural fly either the flesh fly, the 

 bank fly, the grey or green drake ; but the green 

 munket of the alder-tree excels all the rest, as the 

 sun in excellency outlustres the stars. Moreover, 

 you shall find him gaping after grasshoppers, or any 

 other insect that presents in season. And, since 

 nothing comes amiss, so nothing distastes him : and 

 where the locust is, there is he; which, if well 

 examined to the centre of the calms, he shall re- 

 compense the examinant with the reward of his 

 life ; always provided he but separate the body from 

 the leatherish wing, which, by reason of its vis- 

 cuosity, is but rarely digested ; nor is it otherwise by 

 him well accepted. 



It is true with green cheese some anglers do treat 

 him, but then it succeeds best at the tail of a 

 stream ; at the fall of fords into the solitary deeps. 

 And that you may know he affects variety, let the 

 artist, at discretion, change the dairy-maid's com- 

 mons for the beauty of a bright well-scoured red- 

 worm, or the head of a frog in April and May, or a 

 black snail sometimes in a dewy morning. These 

 invitations make his teeth stand a water. But for 

 salmon spawn, if you bring him that novel, you do 

 your business, and his too ; and shall have no cause, 

 I assure you, to repent it, when, upon so fair an 

 exchange, he trucks away his life for a trifle. But 

 September approaching, you must bring him beef 

 pith, for which he shall sacrifice all he has, and give 

 you his carcase in exchange for his commons. 

 What's more to be desired by the rule of dis- 

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