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4. Another fly taken this month is a BLACK HACKLE, the body made 

 of the whirl of a peacock's feather, and a black hackle feather on the top. 



5. We have also another, made of a peacock's whirl without wings. 



6. Another fly also is taken this month, called the SHELL-FLY, the 

 dubbing of yellow-green Jersey wool, and a little white hog's hair mixt, 

 which I call the palm-fly, and do believe it is taken for a palm, that drops 

 off the willows into the water ; for this fly I have seen Trouts take little 

 pieces of moss, as they have swam down the river ; by which I conclude 

 that the best way to hit the right colour is to compare your dubbing with 

 the moss, and mix the colours as near as you can. 



7. There is also taken, this month, a BLACK-BLUE DUN, the dubbing of 

 the fur of a black rabbit mixt with a little yellow, the wings of the feather 

 of a blue pigeon's wing. 



AUGUST. 

 The same flies with July. 



1. Then another ANT-FLY, the dubbing of the black-brown hair of a 

 cow, some red warpt in for the tag of his tail, and a dark wing. A killing 

 fly. 



2. Next, a fly called the FERN-FLY, the dubbing of the fur of a hare's 

 neck, that is, of the colour of fern or bracken, with a darkish grey wing of 

 a mallard's feather. A killer too. 



3. Besides these we have a WHITE HACKLE, the body of white mohair, 

 and warpt about with a white hackle feather ; and this is, assuredly, 

 taken for thistle-down. 



4. We have also, this month, a HARRY LONG-LEGS ; the body made of 

 bear's dun and blue wool mixt, and a brown hackle feather over all. 



Lastly, in this month, all the same browns and duns are taken that were 

 taken in May. 



SEPTEMBER. 



This month the same flies are taken that are taken in April. 



1. To which I shall only add a CAMEL-BROWN fly, the dubbing pulled 

 out of the lime of a wall, whipt about with red silk ; and a darkish grey 

 mallard's feather for the wing. 



2. And one other for which we have no name ; but it is made of the 

 black hair of a badger's skin, mixt with the yellow softest down of a 

 sanded hog. 



OCTOBER. 



The same flies are taken this month that were taken in March. 



NOVEMBER. 



The same flies that were taken in February are taken this month also. 



DECEMBER. 



Few men angle with the fly this month, no more than they do in January ; 

 but yet, if the weather be warm, as I have known it sometimes in my life 

 to be, even in this cold country, where it is least expected, then a brown, 

 that looks red in the hand, and yellowish betwixt your eye and the sun, 

 will both raise and kill in a clear water and free from snow-broth : but, at 

 the best, it is hardly worth a man's labour. 



And now, Sir, I have done with Fly-fishing, or Angling at the 



