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ture, when I have told you all, you may incline to think me in 

 the right. 



ViAT. I have so great a deference to your judgment in these 

 matters, that I must always be of your opinion : and the more 

 you speak, the faster I grow to my attention ; for I can never be 

 weary of hearing you upon this subject. 



Pisc. Why that's encouragement enough ; and now prepare 

 yourself for a tedious lecture. But I will first begin with the 

 flies of less esteem, though almost anything will take a trout in 

 May, that I may afterwards insist the longer upon those of great- 

 er note and reputation : know, therefore, that the first fly we take 

 notice of in this month is called 



1. The turkey-fly; the dubbing ravelled out of some blue 

 stuff, and lapped about with yellow silk ; the wings of a grey 

 mallard's feather. 



2. Next, a great hackle or palmer fly, with a yellow body 

 ribbed with gold twist, and large wings of a mallard's feather 

 dyed yellow, with a red capon's hackle over all. 



3. Then a black fly ; the dubbing of a black spaniel's fur, 

 and the wings of a grey mallard's feather. 



4. After that a light brown with a slender body ; the dubbing 

 twirled upon small red silk, and raised with the point of a needle, 

 that the ribs or rows of silk may appear through ; the wings of 

 the grey feather of a mallard. 



5. Next, a little dun ; the dubbing of a bear's dun whirled 

 upon yellow silk, the wings of the grey feather of a mallard. 



• 0. Then a white gnat, with a pale wing, and a black head. 



7. There is also this month a fly called the peacock-fly ; the 

 body made of a whirl of a peacock's feather, with a red head, 

 and wings of a mallard's feather. 



8. We have then another very killing fly, known by the name 

 of the dun-cut,* the dubbing of which is a bear's dun, with a 

 little blue and yellow mixed with it ; a large dun wing, and two 

 horns at the head, made of the hairs of a squirrel's tail. 



* Not a fly exactly, thou°;h it has win?;s, but the little, roundish, reddish 

 beetle, with black spots, otherwise called the lady-bird {Cocinelld). — 

 Rcnnie. 



