24 Artificial Flies. 



" August. 



" The drake flye, the body of blacke 

 wull and lappid abowte wyth blacke sylke : 

 vvynges of the mayle of the blacke drake 

 wyth a blacke heed." 



I have often thought I should like to 

 have a set of Dame Juliana's twelve "flyes," 

 dressed neatly on eyed hooks, to try on 

 the trout and grayling of the Test and 

 Itchin. Is not that " June fly " she calls the 

 "Tandy fly" also meant for the May fly ? 

 " The body of tandy wool and the wynges 

 contrary eyther against the other of the 

 whitest mayle of y e wylde-drake." This 

 light drake hackle, dressed so that the 

 feathers lie "contrary eyther against the 

 other," is our nineteenth-century May fly ; 

 and I like that "whitest mayle," for I have 

 killed more and larger trout with a very 

 light-coloured Egyptian goose wing than 

 with any other feather, and prefer it at 

 times to the softer and darker Canadian 

 duck feather. 



" y Redde Capon's HakylL" 



It is just four centuries since Dame 

 Juliana recommended a red capon or red 

 cock's hackle, and it is pleasant to find 



