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whereas the Green-Drake is common hoth to stream 

 and still, and to all hours of the day, we seldom 

 dape with this but in the streams, for in a whistling 

 wind a made-fly in the deep is better — and rarely 

 but early and late, it not being so proper for the 

 mid-time of the day ; though a great Grayling will 

 then take it very well in a sharp stream, and here 

 and there a Trout too, but much better towards 

 eight, nine, ten, or eleven, of the clock at night, at 

 which time also the best fish rise, and the later the 

 better, provided you can see your fly; and when 

 you cannot, a made-fly will murder, which is to 

 be made thus : The dubbing of bear's dun with a 

 little brown and yellow camlet very well mixed ; 

 but so placed, that your fly may be more yellow on 

 the belly and towards the tail underneath, than in 

 any other part ; and you are to place two or three 

 hairs of a black cat's beard on the top of the hook, 

 in your arming, so as to be turned up, when you 

 warp on vour dubbing, and to stand almost upright, 

 and staring one from another : and note that your 

 fly is to be ribbed with yellow silk ; and the wings 

 long, and very large, of the dark gray feather of a 

 mallard. 



14. The next May-fly is the Black-Fly ; made 

 with a black body, of the whirl of an Ostridge- 

 feather, ribbed with silver-twist, and the black hac- 

 kle of a cock over all ; and is a killing fly, but not 

 to be named with either of the other. 



