442 THE COMPLETE ANGLER. PART II. 



whipt about with red silk ; and a darkish grey mal- 

 lard's feather, for the wing. 



2. And one other for which we have no name : but it 

 is made of the black hair of a badger's skin, mixed with 

 the yellow softest down of a sanded hog. 



OCTOBER. 



The same flies are taken this month that were taken in 

 March. 



NOVEMBER. 



The same flies that were taken in February, are taken 

 this month also. 



DECEMBER, 



Few men angle with the fly this month, no more than 

 they do in January : but yet, if the weather be warm, as 

 J have known it sometimes in my life to bo, even in this 

 cold country, where it is least expected, then, a brown 

 that looks red in the hand, and yellowish betwixt your 

 eye and the sun, will both raise and kill in a clear water, 

 and free from snow-broth : but, at the best, it is hardly 

 worth a man's labour*. 



* As the foregoing directions mention only the MATERIAL* for mak- 

 ing the several flies, the reader may yet be at a loss both with respect to 

 their FORM and SIZE: therefore we have, in Plate XIII. given the five 

 which may be considered as radical flies; and they are, the palmer, Fig. 11, 

 thejrm-ft drake, 12, the dun-cut, 13, the hawthorn-fly , 14, and the ant-fy, 15. 

 The two first are each a species by itself; the third is a horned fly; the 

 fourth has hackle under his wings ; and the fifth, as most flies of the ant- 

 kind have, has a large bottle-tail ; and to one or other of these figures, it is 

 imagined all flies are reducible. 



In adjusting their different sizes, it must be owned there is great diffi- 

 culty ; all that can be said is, that the figures 11 and 12, exhibit the 

 usual size of the palmer, the green and grey-drake: Fig. 13, may serve 



