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teeth will be the finest blue that ever yoa saw. The 

 wings of this fly can hardly be too white. And he is 

 taken about the tenth of this month, and lasteth till the 

 four and twentieth. 



6. From the tenth of this month also till towards 

 the end, is taken a little BLACK GNAT. The dubbing 

 either of the fur of a black water-dog, or the down of 

 a young black water- coot ; the wings, of the male of 

 a mallard, as white as may be : the body as little as 

 you can possibly make it, and the wings as short as 

 his body. 



7. From the sixteenth of this month also to the end 

 of it, we use a BRIGHT BROWN : the dubbing for 

 which is to be had out of a skinner's lime-pits, and of 

 the hair of an abortive calf, which the lime will turn 

 to be so bright as to shine like gold : for the wings of 

 this fly, the feather of a brown hen is best. Which 

 fly is also taken till the tenth of April. 



APRIL. 



All the same hackles and flies that were taken in 

 March, will be taken in this month also; with this 

 distinction, only, concerning the flies, that all the 

 browns be lapt with red silk, and the duns with yellow. 



1. To these [add] a SMALL BRIGHT BROWN. Made 

 of spaniel's fur ; with a light-grey wing. In a bright, 

 day, and a clear water, is very well taken. 



2. We have too a little (e) DARK BROWN. The 



VARIATIONS. 



(*) DARK BROWN. Dub with the hair of a dark brown spaniel, or 

 calf, that looks ruddy by being exposed to wind and weather ; warp 

 with yellow. Wing, dark starling's feather. 



Taken from eight to eleven. 



This is a good fly, and to be seen in most rivers; But so variable in its 

 hiiC) as the season advances, that it requires the closest attention to the na* 

 tural Jly, to adapt the materials for making it artificially, ivhitb is also 

 the case with the violet or ash-coloured dun. When this fy first appears v 

 it is nearly of a chocolate colour ; from ivbichy by the middle of May, it 

 hat been observed to deviate to almost a hmn to/our : Northern angltrs call 

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