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9. The next is the cow-lady, a little fly ; the body of a pea- 

 cock's feather, the wing of a red feather, or strips of the red 

 hackle of a cock. 



10. We have then the cow-dung fly ; the dubbing light-brown 

 and yellow mixed, the wing the dark grey feather of a mallard. 

 And note, that besides these above-mentioned, all the same 

 hackles and flies, the hackles only brighter and the flies smaller, 

 that are taken in April, will also be taken this month, as also 

 all browns and duns. And now I come to my stone-fly, and 

 green-drake, which are the matadores for trout and grayling, and, 

 in their season, kill more fish in our Derbyshire rivers, than all 

 the rest, past and to come, in the whole year besides. 



But first I am to tell you, that we have four several flies which 

 contend for the title of the May-fly, namely, 



The green-drake, 



The stone-fly, 



The black-flv, and 



The little yellow May-fly. 

 And all these have their champions and advocates to dispute and 

 plead their priority ; though I do not understand wliy the two 

 last-named should ; the first two having so manifestly the advan- 

 tage, both in their beauty, and the wonderful execution they 

 do in their season. 



11. Of these, the green-drake comes in about the twentieth of 

 this month, or betwixt that and the latter end ; for they are some- 

 times sooner and sometimes later, according to the quality of the 

 year : but never well taken till towards the end of this month, 

 and the beafinninor of June. The stone-fly comes much sooner, 

 so early as the middle of April ; but is never well taken till 

 towards the middle of May, and continues to kill much longer 

 than the green-drake stays with us, so long as to the end almost 

 of June ; and indeed, so long as thei'e are any of them to be 

 seen upon the water ; and sometimes in an artificial fly, and late 

 at night, or before sun-rise in a morning, longer. 



Now both these flies, and, 1 believe, many othei-s, though I 

 think not all, are certainly and demonstratively bred in the very 

 rivers where they are taken ; our cadis or cod-bait, which lie 

 under stones in the bottom of the water, most of them turning 



