THE COMPLETE ANGLER. PART II. 



CHAPTER VIII. 



FISHING-AT-THE-TOP, continued Flies for the end 

 of May, and for the following Months, till De- 

 cember; containing^ under May, Instructions when 

 to dape with the Sione-jly. 



VIATOR. 



SO ! Sir, I am now ready for another lesson, so soon 

 as you please to give it me. 



Pisc.-Ju. And I, Sir, as ready to give you the 



best I can. Having told you the time of the Stone- 



fly's coming in, and that he is bred of a ca- 



1L ap * * dis, in the very river where he is taken*, 



I am next to tell you, that, 



13. This same STONE-FLY has not the patience to 

 continue in his crust, or husk, till his wings be full 

 grown : but so soon as ever they begin to put out (that 

 he feels himself strong, at which time we call him a 

 Jack) squeezes himself out of prison ; and crawls to the 

 top of some stone, where if he can find a chink that 

 will receive him or can creep betwixt two stones, the 

 one lying hollow upon the other, which, by the way, 

 we also lay so purposely to find them he, there, lurks 

 till his wings be full grown ; and there is your only 

 place to find him; and from thence doubtless he de- 

 rives his name : though, for want of such convenience, 

 he will make shift with the hollow of a bank, or any 

 other place where the wind cannot comedo fetch him 

 off. His body is long, and pretty thick, and as broad 

 at the tail, almost, as in the middle: his colour a very 

 fine brown, ribbed with yellow, and much yellower on 

 the belly than the back : he has two or three whisks 

 also at the tag of his tail, and, two little horns upon 

 his head: his wings, when full grown, are double, and 

 flat down his back ; of the same colour, but rather 



