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with as much alum as a walnut, and boil your feathers in it with rain- 

 water ; and they will be a very fine yellow. 



I have now done with the Green-drake, excepting to tell you, that he is 

 taken at all hours, during his season, whilst there is any day upon the sky ; 

 and with a made fly I once took, ten days after he was absolutely gone, in 

 a cloudy day, after a shower, and in a whistling wind, five-and-thirty very 

 great Trouts and Graylings, betwixt five and eight of the clock in the 

 evening, and had no less than five or six flies, with three good hairs 

 apiece, taken from me in despite of my heart, besides. 



12. I should now come next to the Stone-fly, but there is another gentle- 

 man in my way that must of necessity come in between, and that is the 

 GREY-DRAKE, which in all shapes and dimensions is perfectly the same 

 with the other, but quite almost of another colour, being of a paler, and 

 more livid yellow, and green, and ribbed with black quite down his body, 

 with black shining wings, and so diaphanous and tender, cobweb-like, 

 that they are of no manner of use for daping, but come in, and are taken 

 after the green-drake, and in an artificial fly kill very well ; which fly is 

 thus made : the dubbing of the down of a hog's bristles and black spaniel's 

 fur mixt, and ribbed down the body with black silk, the whisks of the hairs 

 of the beard of a black cat, and the wings of the black-grey feather of a 

 mallard. 



And now I come to the STONE-FLY ; but am afraid I have 

 already wearied your patience ; which if I have I beseech you, 

 freely tell me so, and I will defer the remaining instructions for 

 fly-angling till some other time. 



VIATOR. No, truly, Sir, I can never be weary of hearing you. 

 But if you think fit, because I am afraid I am too troublesome, 

 to refresh yourself with a glass and a pipe, you may afterwards 

 proceed, and I shall be exceedingly pleased to hear you. 



PlSCATOR. I thank you, Sir, for that motion ; for, believe 

 me, I am dry with talking : here, boy ! give us here a bottle and 

 a glass ; and, Sir, my service to you, and to all our friends in the 

 South. 



VIATOR. Your servant, Sir ; and I'll pledge you as heartily ; 

 for the good powdered beef I ate at dinner, or something else, 

 has made me thirsty. 



VIATOR. So, Sir, I am now ready for another 

 lesson, so soon as you please to give it me. 



PlSCATOR. And I, Sir, as ready to give you the best I can. 

 Having told you the time of the Stone-fly's coming in, and that he 

 is bred of a cadis in the very river where he is taken, I am next 

 to tell you, that 



13. This same STONE-FLY has not the patience to continue in his crust 

 or husk, till his wings be full grown ; but so soon as ever they begin to 

 put out, that he feels himself strong, at which time we call him a Jack, 



