434 THE COMPLETE ANGLER. PART II. 



Take the root of a barbary tree, and shave it : and 

 put to if woody viss, with as much aUum, as a walnut : 

 and hoilyour feathers, in it> with rain-water ; and they 

 will be of a very jine yellow. 



I have now done with the Green-drake, excepting to 

 tell you, that he is taken at all hours, during 1 his season, 

 whilst there is any day upon the sky. And with a 

 Hiade-fly I, once, took ten day softer he was absolutely 



te, in a cloudy day, after a shower, and in a 

 whistling wind five and thirty very great Tiouts and 

 ; lin.ofs betwixt five and eight of the clock in the 

 evening : and had no less than five or six flies, with three 

 good hairs a piece, taken from me in despite of my 

 heart, besides. 



12. I should now come next to the Stone-fly : but 

 there is another gentleman in my way, that must of 

 necessity come in between, and that is the GREY- 

 DRAKE; which, in all shapes and dimensions, is per- 

 fectly the same with the other, but quite almost of 

 another colour, being of a paler, and more livid, yel- 

 low and green, and ribbed /with black quite down his 

 body ; with black shining wings ; and so diaphanous 

 and tender, (cobweb like,) that they are of no manner of 

 use for daping : But come in, and are taken after the 

 green-drake, and in an artificial fly kill very well ; 

 which fly is thus made (7c) : the dubbing, of the down 

 of a hog's bristles, and black spaniel's fur, mixed ; 

 and ribbed, down the body, with black silk ; the 

 whisks, of the hairs of the beard of a black cat ; and 

 the wings, of the black grey feather of a mallard. 



And now I come to the STONE-FLY : but am afraid, 

 1 have already wearied your patience; which if I have, 



VARIATIONS. 



() GREY-DRAKE. The body, of,, an absolute-white ostrich feather ; 

 the end of the body towards the tail, of peacock's herl: warping, of an 

 ash-colour, with silver twist, and black hackle ; wing, of a dark grey 

 feather of a mallard. 



A very killing jly t especially totuardt the evening ; ivken tbejtsb are gluittd 

 vtitb the grecn~drakt. 



