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1. The TURKEY-FLY'; the dubbing ravelled out of some blue stuff, and 

 lapt about with yellow silk ; the wings of a grey mallard's feather. 



2. Next, a GREAT HACKLE, or PALMER-FLY, with a yellow body, 

 ribbed with gold twist, and large wings of a mallard's feather dyed yellow, 

 with a red capon's hackle over all. 



3. Then a BLACK-FLY ; the dubbing of a black spaniel's fur, and the 

 wings of a grey mallard's feather. 



4. After that, a LIGHT BROWN, with a slender body, the dubbing 

 twirled upon small red silk, and raised with the point of a needle, that 

 the ribs or rows of silk may appear through the wings of the grey feather 

 of a mallard. 



5. Next a LITTLE DUN ; the dubbing of a bear's dun whirled upon 

 yellow silk ; the wings of a grey feather of a mallard. 



6. Then a WHITE GNAT, with a pale wing, and a black head. 



7. There is also in this month a fly called the PEACOCK-FLY ; the body 

 made of a whirl of a peacock's feather, with a red head, and wings of a 

 mallard's feather. 



8. We have then another very killing fly, known by the name of the 

 Dt'N-CUT; the dubbing of which is a bear's dun, with a little blue and 

 yellow mixt with it, a large dun wing, and two horns at the head, made of 

 the hairs of a squirrel's tail. 



9. The next is a Cow-LADY, a little fly ; the body of a peacock's 

 feather, the wing of a red feather, or strips of the red hackle of a cock. 



10. We have then the Cow-DuNG fly ; the dubbing light brown and 

 yellow mixt ; the wing, the dark grey feather of a mallard. And note, that 

 besides these above mentioned, all the same hackles and flies, the hackles 

 only brighter and the flies smaller, that are taken in April, will also be 

 taken this month, as all Browns and Duns. And now I come to my Stone- 

 fly and Green-drake, which are the matadores for Trout and Grayling, and 

 in their season kill more fish in our Derbyshire rivers than all the rest, 

 past and to come, in the whole year besides. 



But first I am to tell you, that we have four several flies which contend 

 for the title of the May-fly, namely, the GREEN-DRAKE ; the STONE-FLY; 

 the BLACK-FLY ; and the LITTLE YELLOW MAY-FLY. And all these 

 have tlieir champions and advocates to dispute and plead their priority ; 

 though I do not understand why the two last named should ; the first two 

 having so manifestly the advantage, both in their beauty and the wonder- 

 ful execution they do in their season. 



11. Of these the GREEN-DRAKE comes in about the twentieth of this 

 month, or betwixt that and the latter end, for they are sometimes sooner 

 and sometimes later, according to the quality of the year, but never well 

 taken till towards the end of this month and the beginning of June. The 

 STONE-FLY comes much sooner, so early as the middle of April, but is 

 never well taken till towards the middle of May, and continues to kill 

 much longer than the green-drake stays with us, so long as to the end 

 almost of June ; and, indeed, so long as there are any of them to be seen 

 upon the water ; and sometimes in an artificial fly, and late at night, or 

 before sunrise in a morning, longer. 



Now both these flies, and I believe many others, though T think not all, 

 are certainly and demonstratively bred in the very rivers where they are 

 taken ; our cadis or cod-bait, which lie under stones in the bottom of the 

 water, most of them turning into those two flies, and being gathered in the 



