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day all this month through, and by fits from thence to the end of 

 June ; and is commonly made of the down of a fox-cub, which 

 is of an ash color at the roots next the skin, and ribbed about 

 with yellow silk, the wings of the pale grey feather of a mallard. 



5. There is also a yellow dun, the dubbing of camel's hair, 

 and yellow camlet or wool mixed, and a white grey wing. 



6. There is also, this month, another little brown, besides that 

 mentioned before, made with a very slender body, the dubbing 

 of dark brown, and violet camlet mixed, and a grey wing ; 

 which, though the direction for the making be near the other, is 

 yet another fly, and will take when the other will not, especially 

 in a bright day and a clear water. 



7. About the twentieth of this month comes in a fly called the 

 horse-flesh fly ; the dubbing of which is a blue mohair, with 

 pink-colored and red tammy mixed, a light-colored wing, and a 

 dark brown head. This fly is taken best in an evening, and kills 

 from two hours before sunset till twilight, and is taken the month 

 through. 



MAY. 



And now. Sir, that we are entering into the month of May, I 

 think it requisite to beg not only your attention, but also your 

 best patience ; for I must now be a little tedious with you, and 

 dwell upon this month longer than ordinary : which that you may 

 the better endure, I must tell you, this month deserves and re- 

 quires to be insisted on ; forasmuch as it alone, and the next follow, 

 ing, afford more pleasure to the fly-angler than all the rest. And 

 here it is that you are to expect an account of the green-drake, 

 and stone-fly, promised you so long ago, and some others that are 

 peculiar to this month and part of the month following, and that, 

 thougli not so great either in bulk or name, do yet stand in com- 

 petition with the two before-named ; and so, that it is yet unde- 

 cided amongst the anglers, to which of the pretenders to the title 

 of the May-fly it does properly and duly belong : neither dare I, 

 where so many of the learned in this art of angling are got in 

 dispute about the controversy, take upon me to determine ; but I 

 think I ought to have a vote amongst them, and, according to 

 that privilege, shall give you my free opinion ; and, peradven- 



