43S THE COMPLETE ANGLER. PART II. 



our cadis or cod-bait, which lie under stones in the 

 bottom of the water, most of them turning into those 

 two flies; and being gathered in the husk, or crust, 

 near the time of their maturity are very easily known 

 and distinguished ; and are, of all other the most re- 

 markable, both for their size, (as being of all other 

 the biggest, the shortest or them being a full inch long 

 or more,) and for the execution they do, the Trout and 

 Grayling being much more greedy of them, than 

 of any others i and, indeed, the Trout never feeds fat, 

 nor comes into his perfect season,, till these flies come 

 in. 



Of these, the Green-drake never discloses from his 

 husk, till he be, first, there grown to full maturity, 

 body, wings, and all : and, then, he creeps out of his 

 cell, but with his wings so crimpt and ruffled, by be- 

 ing prest together in that narrow room, that they are, 

 for some hours, totally useless to him; by which means, 

 he is compelled either to creep upon the flags, sedges, 

 and blades of grass if his first rising from the bottom 

 of the water, be near the banks of the river till the air 

 and sun stiffen and smooth them [his wings :] or, if his 

 first appearance above water happen to be in the mid- 

 dle, he, then, lies upon the surface of the water, like a 

 ship at hull, (for his feet are totally useless to him there, 

 and he cannot creep upon the water as the 'stone-fly 

 can,) until his wines have got stiffness to Jly with : (if 

 by some Trout or Grayling he be not taken in the inte- 

 rim, which ten to one he is :) and, then, his wings stand 

 high, and closed exact upon his back, like the butter- 

 fly ; and his motion, in Hying, is the same. His body 

 is, in some, of a paler, in others, of a darker yellow, 

 (for they are not all exactly of a colour,) ribbed with 

 rows of green long, slender, and growing sharp to- 

 wards the tail ; at the end of which, he has three long 

 small whisks of a very dark colour, almost black ; and 

 his tail turns up towards his back, like a mallard, from 

 whence, questionless, lie has his name of the Green- 

 drake. These, as 1 think I told you before, we com- 

 monly dape, or dibble with : and having gathered great 

 store of them into a long draw-box, with holes in the 



