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and vi odorous a nigrht or more, we take them out thence by the 

 wings, and bait them thus upon the hook. We first take one, for 

 we commonly fish with two of them at a time, and putting the 

 point of the hook into the thickest part of his body under one of 

 his wings, run it directly through, and out at the other side, 

 leaving him spitted cross upon the hook, and then taking the 

 other, put him on after the same manner, but with his head the 

 contrary way ; in which posture they will live upon the hook, 

 and play with their wings, for a quarter of an hour or more : but 

 you must have a care to keep their wings dry, both from the 

 water, and also that your fingprs be not wet when you take them 

 out to bait them ; for then your bait is spoiled. 



Havincf now told vou how to an^le with this fly alive, T am 

 now to tell you next how to make an artificial fly, that will so 

 perfectly resemble him, as to be taken in a rough windy day 

 when no flies can lie upon the water, nor are to be found about 

 the banks and sides of the river, to a wonder, and with which 

 you shall certainly kill the best trout and grayling in the river. 



The artificial green-drake, then, is made upon a large hook ; 

 the dubbinn-, camel's hair, bright bear's hair, the soft down that 

 is combed from a hog's bristles, and yellow camlet, well mixed 

 together ; the body long, and ribbed about with green silk, or 

 rather yellow waxed with green wax ; the whisks of the tail, of 

 the long hairs of sables or fichct ; and the wings of the white 

 grey feather of a mallard, dyed yellow ; which also is to be dyed 

 thus. 



Take the root of a barbary-tree, and shave it, and put to it 

 woody viss, with as much alum as a walnut, and boil your feathers 

 in it with rain-water ; and they will be of a very fine yellow. 



I have now done with the green-drake, excepting to tell you, 

 that he is taken at all hours during his season, whilst there is any 

 day upon the sky ; and with a made fly I once took, ten days 

 after he was absolutely gone, in a cloudy day, after a shower, 

 and in a whistling wind, five and thirty very great trouts and 

 graylings, betwixt five and eight of the clock in the evening ; 

 and had no less than five or six flies, with three good hairs a-piece, 

 taken from me in despite of my heart, besides. 



12. I should now come next to the stone-flv, but there Is 



