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there is store of Trouts, a dark day, find a right wind; 

 he will catch such store of them, as will encourage 

 him to grow more and more in love with the art of fly- 

 making. 



Ven. But, my loving master ! if any wind will not 

 serve, then I wish I were in Lapland, to buy a good 

 wind of one of the honest witches, that sell so many 

 winds there, and so cheap. 



Pise. Marry, scholar ! but I would not be there, 

 nor indeed from under this tree ; for look how it begins 

 to rain ! and by the clouds, if I mistake not, we shall 

 presently have a smoking shower; and therefore sit 

 close ; this sycamore tree will shelter us. And I will 

 tell you, as they shall come into my mind, more obser- 

 vations of fly-fishing for a Trout. 



But, first, for the WIND : You are to take notice, 



The next three leaves should be double ; stitch them through the mid- 

 dle, from side to side, and with the compasses describe a circle of about 

 an inch and half diameter ; cutout the parchment within the circle. Un- 

 der some of the margins, when the leaves are stitched together, you may 

 tuck peacock's and ostrich herle ; and in others lay neatly the golden fea- 

 thers of a pheasant's breast, and the grey and dyed yellow mail of a 

 mallard. 



Three double leaves more, with only two large pockets in each, may be 

 allotted for silk of various colours, gold and silver twist, and other odd 

 things. 



Six single leaves more will compleat your book ; stitch them from side 

 to side with distances of half an inch, and cross those stitches with others, 

 from top to bottom, with somewhat greater distances. And into every 

 other space, reckoning from top to bottom, lay neatly and smoothly a star- 

 ling's feather ; do the same on the back-side; and, so, for tivo leaves. The 

 other leaves you may fill with land-rails and other small feathers, plover's 

 tops, and red and black hackles. 



The first and last leaves of your book may be double, stitched in the 

 middle, from side to side, but open at the edges; which will leave you four 

 pockets like those of a common pocket-book ; into which you may put 

 hooks, and a small piece of wax, wrapped in a bit of glove-leather. 



To the page that contains the mixed dubbings, there should be an In- 

 dex, referring to every division contained in it, and expressing what fly 

 each mixture is for. 



When your book is thus prepared, send it to the binder with directions 

 to bind it as strong as possible ; let him leave a flap to one of the boards, 

 and fasten to it a yard of ribbon to tie it. 



The usefulness and manifold conveniences of a Book are apparent ; and 

 whoever will be at the pains of making such a one as this, will find it 

 greatly preferable to a magazine-bag. 



