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but it is made of the black hair of a badger's skin, 

 mixed with the yellow softest down of a sanded- 

 hog. 



OCTOBER. 



The same flies are taken this month that were 

 taken in March. 



NOVEMBER. 



The same flies that were taken in February, are 

 taken this month also. 



DECEMBER. 



Few men angle with the fly this month, no more 

 than they do in January : but yet, if the weather be 

 warm, — as I have known it sometimes in my life to 

 be, even in this cold country, where it is least ex- 

 pected, — then a brown that looks red in the hand, 

 and yellowish betwixt your eye and the sun, will 

 both raise and kill in a clear water, and free from 

 snow-broth : but, at the best, 'tis hardly worth a 

 man's labour. 



And now, Sir, I have done with Fly-fishing, or 

 Angling at the Top ; excepting once more to tell you, 

 that of all these, — and I have named you a great 

 many very killing-flies, — none arc fit to be compared 

 with the Drake and Stone-fly, both for many and very 

 great fish. And yet, there are some days that are 

 by no means proper for the sport : and in a calm 

 you shall not have near so much sport, even with 

 daping, as in a whistling gale of wind, for two rea- 



