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We can bear ample testimony to the truth of 

 these eulogistic observations. 



March-brown Dun-fly : Body, hare's fur 

 from the back of the neck, twisted round 

 primrose-coloured silk; legs, a brownish-dun 

 hackle ; and wings from a hen pheasant's wing- 

 feather. 



APRIL. 



Orange Dun : Body, orange- coloured silk ; 

 legs, a blue-dun hackle; wings, a fieldfare's 

 wing-feather. 



Cow-dung Fly : Body, yellow lamb's -wool, 

 mixed with a little brown mohair ; legs, ginger- 

 coloured hackle ; wings, from the wing-feather 

 of a land-rail. To be dressed with orange- 

 coloured silk. This is a killing fly on windy 

 days, and on them only. 



The Golden and Plain Palmer flies are to be 

 used this month, tied on a No. 2 Kendal hook. 



The Grannom, or Green-tail : This fly 

 comes in about the middle of April, and lasts 

 three weeks or thereabouts. On warm days it 

 is a good fly during the morning and evening, 

 when no brown flies are on the water. "It 



