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wool; made yellow under the wings, and under the 

 tail, and so made with wings of the drake. The 

 FOURTH is the ruddy-fly, in the beginning of May : 

 the body made of red- wool, wrapt about with black 

 silk ; and the feathers are the wings of the drake ; 

 with the feathers of a red capon, also, which hang 

 dangling on his sides next to the tail. The FIFTH 

 is the yellow or greenish fly, in May likewise ; the 

 body made of yellow wool ; and the wings made of 

 the red cock's hackle, or tail. The SIXTH is the 

 black-fly, in May also : the body made of black 

 wool, and lapt about with the herle of a peacock's 

 tail; the wings are made of the wings of a brown 

 capon, with his blue feathers in his head. The SE- 

 TENTH is the sad yellow-fly in June : the body is made 

 of black wool, with a yellow list on either side ; and 

 the wings taken off the wings of a buzzard, bound 

 with black braked hemp. The EIGHTH is the 

 moorish-fly; made, with the body, of duskish wool; 

 and the wings made of the blackish mail of the 

 drake. The NINTH is the tawny-fly, good until the 

 middle of June ; the body made of tawny wool; the 

 wings made contrary one against the other, made 

 of the whitish mail of the wild drake. The TENTH 

 is the wasp-fly in July : the body made of black 

 wool, lapt about with yellow silk ; the wings made 

 of the feathers of the drake, or of the buzzard. The 

 ELEVENTH is the shell-fly, good in mid-July : the 

 body made of greenish wool, lapt about with the 

 herle of a peacock's tail : and the wings made of 

 the wings of the buzzard. The TWELFTH is the 

 dark drake-fly, good in August: the body made 

 with black wool, lapt abouf with black silk ; his 

 wings are made with the mail of the black drake, 

 with a black head. Thus have you a jury of flies 

 likely to betray and condemn all the T routs in the 

 river*. 



* It has been already observed, that Walton's excellence as an 

 angler, did not consist in fly-fishing : the reader is, therefore, recom- 

 mended to the List of flits in the second fart> and the Additiw contained 

 in the Jfotes thereoa. 



