70 WALTON TO THE READER. 



and on the water in one month of the year, may the 

 following year come almost a month sooner or 

 later, as the same year proves colder or hotter : and 

 yet, in the following DISCOURSE, / have set down 

 the twelve Jlies that are in reputation with many 

 anglers ; and they may serve to give him some ob- 

 servations concerning them. And he may note, that 

 there are in WALES and other countries, peculiar 

 flies, proper to the particular place or country ; and 

 doubtless, unless a man makes a Jly to counterfeit 

 that very fly in that place, he is like to lose his la~ 

 bour, or much of it; but for the generality, three 

 or four flies, neat and rightly made, and not too big, 

 serve for a Trout in most rivers, all the summer. 

 And for winter fly-fishing it is as useful as an al- 

 manack out of date I And of these, because as no 

 man is born an artist, so no man is born an angler, 

 I thought jit to give thee this notice. 



When I have told the reader, that in this fifth * 

 impression there are many enlargements, gathered 

 both by my own observation, and the communication 

 with friends, I shall stay him no longer than to wish 

 him a rainy evening to read this following discourse ; 

 and that, if he be^an honest angler, the east wind 

 may never blow when he goes ajishing. 



I W. 



* The fifth, as it is the last of the editions published in the author's 

 life-time, has been carefully followed in the present publication. See the 

 Author's Life. 



