9G THE COMPLETE ANGLER. 



when the waters are so troubled that the natural fly cannot be 

 seen, or rest upon them. The first is the dun-fly in March,* the 

 body is made of dun-wool, the wings of the partridge's feathers. 

 The second is another dun-fly ; the body of black wool, and the 

 winjrs made of the black drake's feathers, and of the feathers 

 under his tail. The tliird is ti^e stone-fly in April ; the body is 

 made of black wool, made yellow under the wings, and under 

 the tail, and so made with wings of the drake. The fourth is 

 the ruddy-fly in the beginning of May ; the body made of red 

 wool wrapt about witli black silk, and the feathers are the wings 

 of the drake, M'ith the feathers of a red capon also, which hang 

 dangling on his sides next to the tail. The fifth is the yellow or 

 greenish-fly, in May likewise ; the body made of yellow wool, 

 and the win^s made of the red cock's hackle or tail. The sixth 

 is the black-fly, in May also ; the body made of black wool, and 

 lapped about with the herl of a peacock's tail ; the wings are 

 made of the wings of a brown capon, with his blue feathers in 

 his head. The seventh is the sad yellow-fly in June ; the body 

 is made of black wool, with a yellow list on either side, and the 

 winfjs taken otf the wino-s of a buzzard, bound with black braked 

 hemp. The eighth is the moorish-fly ; made with the body of 

 duskish wool, and the wings made of the blackish mail of the 

 drake. The ninth is the tawny-fly, good until the middle of June ; 

 the body made of tawny wool, the wings made contrary one 

 against the other, made of the whitish mail of the wild drake. 

 The tenth is the wasp-fly in July ; the body made of black wool, 



have been personally known to our author, and he (Mascall) stole laro^ely 

 from the Berners Treatyse. It is not improbable that Walton copied from 

 Mascall, but as he could not have spoken thus of him witli truth, he refers, 

 as I suj)pose, either to Barker again, or to some other friend wlio had jiointed 

 out or copied these directions for him. The description of these flies is not 

 in the first edition, which, as Walton was somewhat forgetful in adjusting his 

 emendations, may account for the repetition of the reference to Barker. — 

 Am. Ed. 



* The reader will remember (what other editors have not thouglit of 

 noting) that the months here given are in the old style, and consequently 

 twelve days earlier than now. (Fisher's Angler's Scnivenir, p. 129.) I 

 need hardly say that these directions for the use and making of flies are 

 quite obsolete —Am. Ed. 



