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Another Dark Dun : Esterhazy silk for 

 body ; blue-dun hackle for legs ; wings, of the 

 feather of a starling. 



Winter Brown: Body, puce-coloured silk; 

 legs, a dark furnace hackle; wings, from the 

 feather of a fieldfare. 



The March Brown, or Dun-drake : This 

 fly is so important a one, that we feel bound 

 to give, in conjunction with our own informa- 

 tion, that of others respecting it. We are 

 writing on the twentieth of March, and we 

 desire the reader to bear in mind the lateness 

 and the coldness of the season. On Friday last, 

 the sixteenth, we took a stroll to the Dove. 

 The morning promised fair, and though the 

 river was dashed, and by two feet of water too 

 full, we expected a tolerable day's sport. Just 

 as we began to fish, there came on a mingled 

 storm of wind, rain, and hail. Notwithstand- 

 ing, we resolved, for a moment, ta " bide the 

 pelting of the pitiless storm," and in less than 

 ten minutes we caught, with this fly, three 

 trout and one grayling, each within five yards 

 of the other. There was not a single natural 

 fly visible on the water, and each of the fish 

 weighed upwards of a pound. One of the 

 trout would have weighed more than two 

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