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fine brown, ribbed with yellow, and much yellower 

 on the belly than the back : he has two or three 

 whisks also at the tag of his tail, and two little 

 horns upon his head : his wings, when full grown, 

 are double, and flat down his back, of the same 

 colour but rather darker than his body, and lon- 

 ger than it ; though he makes but little use of 

 them, for you shall rarely see him flying, though 

 often swimming and paddling, with several feet he 

 has under his belly, upon the water, without stir- 

 ring a wing. But the Drake will mount steeple- 

 high into the air ; though he is to be found upon 

 flags and grass too, and, indeed, every-where high 

 and low near the river ; there being so many of 

 them in their season, as, were they not a very in- 

 offensive insect, would look like a plague : and 

 these Drakes (since I forgot to tell you before, I 

 will tell you here) are taken by the fish to that in- 

 credible degree, that, upon a calm day, you shall 

 see the still-deeps continually all over circles by 

 the fishes rising, who will gorge themselves with 

 those flies, till they purge again out of their gills : 

 and the Trouts are at that time so lusty and strong, 

 that one of eight or ten inches long will then 

 more struggle and tug, and more endanger your 

 tackle, than one twice as big in winter : but par- 

 don this digression. 



This Stone-Fly, then, we dape or dibble with, 

 as with the Drake, but with this difference; that 



