22 Artificial Flies. 



Fly-fishing must have been practised 

 much earlier than the period of this 

 Treaty 'se; for how otherwise would such a 

 complete description of artificial flies for 

 the different months have appeared in it ? 

 Nothing but gradual evolution extending 

 over perhaps centuries could account for 

 this list of the 



" XII. flyes wyth whyche ye shall angle 

 to y trought and grayllyng and dubbe 

 lyke as ye shall now here me tell. 



JULIANA BERNERS' LIST OF ARTIFICIAL 

 FLIES. 



" The donne flye, the body of the donne 

 woll and the wyngis of the pertryche. A 

 nother doone flye : the body of blacke 

 woll : the wynges of the blackyst drake : 

 and the Jay under the wynge and under 

 the tayle. 



"Apryll. 



" The stone flye, the bodye of blacke 

 wull : and yelowe under the wynge, and 

 under the tayle and the wynges of the 

 drake. In the begynnynge of May a 

 good flye, the body of roddyd wull and 

 lappid abowte wyth blacke sylke : the 

 wynges of the drake and of the redde 

 capons hakyll. 



