332 THE COMPLETE ANGLER. [part ii. 



THE SECOND DAY. 



chapter viii. 



Viator. 



So, Sir, I am now ready for another lesson, so soon 

 as you please to give it me. 



Pise. And I, Sir, as ready to give you the best 

 I can. Having told you the time of the Stone-fly's 

 coming in, and that he is bred of a cadis in the 

 very river where he is taken, I am next to tell you, 

 that, 



13. This same Stone-fly has not the patience to 

 continue in his crust, or husk, till his wings be full 

 grown ; but so soon as ever they begin to put out, 

 that he feels himself strong (at which time we call 

 him a Jack) squeezes himself out of prison, and 

 crawls to the top of some stone ; where, if he can 

 find a chink that will receive him, or can creep 

 betwixt two stones, the one lying hollow upon the 

 other (which, by the way, we also lay so purposely 

 to find them) he there lurks till his wings be full 

 grown, and there is your only place to find him ; 

 and from thence doubtless he derives his name : — 

 though, for want of such convenience, he will 

 make shift with the hollow of a bank, or any other 

 place where the wind cannot come to fetch him off. 

 His body is long, and pretty thick, and as broad at 

 the tail, almost, as in the middle ; his colour a very 



