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cover to give them air ; where also they will continue 

 fresh and vigorous, a night or more ; we take them 

 out, thence, by the wings: And bait them, fli us, upon 

 the hook; we first take owe (for we commonly fish 

 with two of them at a time,) and putting the point of 

 the hook into the thickest part of his body, under one 

 of his wings, run it directly through, and out at the 

 other side, leaving him spitted, cross, upon the hook ; 

 and then taking the other, put him on after the same 

 manner, but with his head the contrary way : in which 

 posture they will live upon the hook, and play with 

 their wings, for a quarter of an hour or more. But you 

 must have a care to keep their wings dry, both from the 

 water, and also that your fingers be not wet when 

 you take them out to bait them, for then your bait is 

 spoiled. 



Having now told you, how to angle with this fly 

 alive, 1 am now to tell you next, How to make an ar- 

 tificial fly ; that wilt so perfectly resemble him, as to be 

 taken f by the fish] in a rough windy day when no 

 flies can lie upon the water, nor are to be found about 

 the banks and sides of the river to a wonder ; and with 

 which you shall, certainly, kill the best Trout and 

 Grayling in the river. 



The artificial Green-drake, (i) then, is made upon a 

 large hook : the dubbing camel's hair, bright bear's 

 hair, the soft down that is combed from a hog's bris- 

 tles, and yellow camlet, well mixed together : the body 

 long, and ribbed about with green silk (or rather yel- 

 low) waxed with green wax : the whisks of the tail of 

 the long hairs of sables, or fitchet : and the wings, of 

 the white-gray feather of a mallard, dyed yellow, which 

 also is to be dyed thus : 



VARIATIONS. 



(i) GREEN-DRAKE, or MAY-FLY. The body of seal's fur, or yellow 

 mohair, a little cub-fox down, and hog's wool, or light brown from a 

 Turkey-carpet, mixed ; warp with pale yellow ; pale yellow, or red cock'* 

 hackle, under the wings ; wings, of a mallard's feather dyed yellow ; 

 three whiks, in his tail, from a sable muff, 



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