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upon the hook, and play with their wings for a 

 quarter of an hour, or more : but you must have a 

 care to keep their wings dry, both from the water, 

 and also that your fingers be not wet when you 

 take them out to bait them ; for then your bait is 

 spoiled. 



Having now told you how to angle with this fly 

 alive, I am now to tell you next, how to make an 

 artificial-fly, that will so perfectly resemble him, 

 as to be taken in a rough windy day when no flies 

 can lie upon the water, nor are to be found about 

 the banks and sides of the river, to a wonder ; and 

 with which you shall certainly kill the best Trout 

 and Gravling in the river. 



The artificial Green-Drake, then, is made upon a 

 large hook ; the dubbing, camel's hair, bright bear's 

 hair, the soft down that is combed from a hog's 

 bristles and yellow camlet, well mixed together ; the 

 body long, and ribbed about with green silk, or 

 rather yellow, waxed with green wax, the whisks 

 of the tail, of the long hairs of sables, or fitchet, 

 and the wings of the white-gray feather of a mal- 

 lard, dyed yellow ; which also is to be dyed thus. 



Take the root of a Barbary -tree •, and shave it, and 

 put to it woody viss, with as much alum as a walnut, 

 and boil your feathers in it with rain-water; and they 

 will be of a very fine yellow. 



I have now done with the Green- Drake ; except- 

 ing to tell you, that he is taken at all hours during 

 his season, whilst there is any day upon the sky: 



