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cold, let the wind sit in what corner it will, and do 

 it's worst, I heed it not. And yet take this for a 

 rule, that I would willingly fish standing on the 

 lee-shore : and you are to take notice, that the fish 

 lies or swims nearer the bottom, and in deeper 

 water in winter than in summer; and also nearer 

 the bottom in a cold day, and then gets nearest the 

 lee-side of the water. 



But I promised to tell you more of the Fly-fishing 

 for a Trout, which I may have time enough to do, 

 for you see it rains May-butter. First for a May-fly : 

 you may make his body with greenish -coloured 

 crewel, or willowish-colour ; darkening it in most 

 places with waxed silk, or ribbed with black hair, 

 or some of them ribbed with silver thread ; and 

 such wings, for the colour, as you see the fly to have 

 at that season ; nay, at that very day on the water. 

 Or you may make the Oak-fly with an orange-tawnv 

 and black ground, and the brown of a mallard's 

 feather for the wings ; and you are to know, that 

 these two are most excellent flies, that is, the May- 

 flv and the Oak-fly. And let me again tell you, that 

 you keep as far from the water as you can possibly, 

 whether you fish with a fly or worm, and fish 

 down the stream : and when you fish with a fly, if 

 it be possible, let no part of your line touch the 

 water, but your fly only ; and be still moving your 

 fly upon the water, or casting it into the water, you 

 yourself being also always moving down the stream. 



Mr. Barker commends several sorts of the Palmer- 



