426 THE COMPLETE ANGLER. PART II. 



Whirling Dun indeed ; which is one of the best flies 

 we have. And for this the dubbing must be of the 

 bottom fur of a squirrel's tail; and the wing, of the 

 grey feather of a drake. 



2. Also a BRIGHT BROWN. The dubbing either of 

 the brown of a spaniel, or that of a cow's flank ; with 

 a grey wing. 



3. Also a WHITISH DUN. Made of the roots of 

 camel's hair ; and the wings, of the grey feather of a 

 mallard. 



4. There is also, for this month, a fly called the 

 THORN-TREE FLY. The dubbing an absolute black, 

 mixt with eight or ten hairs of Isabella-coloured * mo- 

 hair : the body as little as can be made : and the 

 wings, of a bright mallard's feather. An admirable fly, 

 and in great repute amongst us for a killer. 



5. There is besides this, another; (d) BLUE DUN ; 

 the dubbing of which it is made, being thus to be got. 

 Take a small-tooth comb, and with it comb the neck of 

 a black greyhound, and the down that sticks in the 



* ISABELLA, Sftzie di colort the parteeipct del bianco c del gidllo. Altieri't 

 Dictionary. .A kind of whitish yellow, or, as some say, buff colour a little 

 soiled. 



How it came by this name, will appear from the following anecdote; 

 for which, I am obliged to a very ingenious and learned lady. The Arch- 

 duke Albertus, who had married the Infanta Isabella, daughter of Philip 

 the second, king of Spain, with whom he had the Low Countries in 

 dowry; in the year 1602, having determined to lay siege to Ostend, then 

 in the possession of the heretics, his pious princess, wh* attended him in 

 that expedition, made a vow, that till it was taken she would never change 

 her clothes. Contrary to expectation, as the story says, it was three years 

 before the place was reduced ; in which time, her highneas's linen had 

 acquired the above-mentioned hue. 



VARIATIONS. 



(d) BLUE, or VIOLET DUN. Dub with the roots of a fox-cub's tail, 

 and a very little blue violet worsted: warp with pale yellow silk; wing, 

 of the pale part of a starling's feather. 



Taken from eight to eleven, and from one to three. 



This jfty t -which is also called tie ash-coloured dun, and blue dun, // 

 frcduted from a cadis ; it is so very small, that the book t known at the 

 sbofs by the size No. 9. it full big enough for it, if not too tig Tbt 

 shape of tte fy is exactly the same ivitb that of the Green-drate. So 

 early in the year as February, they will drop on the -water before eight in 

 the morning ; and Trouts, of the largett tize t at v/tll as tmall ontf, will 

 rite at them very eagerly. 



