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the wings of a bright mallard's feather ; an admirable fly, and 

 in great repute amongst us for a killer. 



5. There is, besides this, another blue dun, the dubbing of 

 which it is made being thus to be got. Take a small-tooth comb, 

 and with it comb the neck of a black greyhound, and the down 

 that sticks in the teeth will be the finest blue that ever you saw. 

 The wings of this fly can hardly be too white ; and he is taken 

 about the tenth of this month, and lasteth till the four-and twen- 

 tieth. 



6. From the tenth of this month also, till towards the end, is 

 taken a little black gnat : the dubbing either of the fur of a 

 black water-dog, or the down of a young black water-coot ; the 

 wings of the male of a mallard as white as may be, the body as 

 little as you can possibly make it, and the wings as short as his 

 body. 



7. From the sixteenth of this month also to the end of it we 

 use a bright brown ; the dubbing for which is to be had out of a 

 skinner's lime-pits, and of the hair of an abortive calf, which the 

 lime will turn to be so bright as to shine like gold : for the wings 

 of this fly, the featheivof a brown hen is the best ; which fly is 

 also taken till the tenth of April. 



APRIL. 



All the same hackles and flies that were taken in March, will 

 be taken in this month also, with this distinction onlv concerning 

 the flies, that all the browns be lapped with red silk, and the duns 

 with yellow. 



1. To these a small bright brown, made of spaniel's fur, with 

 a light grey wing, in a bright day and a clear water, is very well 

 taken. 



2. We have, too, a little dark brown, the dubbing of that co- 

 lor, and some violet camlet mixed with the wing of a grey feather 

 of a mallard. 



3. From the sixth of this month to the tenth we have also a 

 fly called the violet fly, made of a dark violet stuff, with the 

 wings of the grey feather of a mallard. 



4. About the twelfth of this month comes in the fly called the 

 whirling dun, which is taken every day about the mid-time of 



