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CHAPTER VIII. 



Viator. So, Sir, I am now ready for another lesson, so soon 

 as you please to give it me. 



Pisc. And I, Sir, as ready to give you the best I can. Hav- 

 ing told you the time of the stone-fly's coming in, and that he is 

 bred of a cadis, in the very river where he is taken, I am next 

 to tell you that, 



13. This same stone-fly has not the patience to continue in 

 his crust or husk, till his wings be full grown ; but, so soon 

 as ever they begin to put out, that he feels himself strong, — 

 at which time we call him a Jack, — squeezes himself out of 

 prison, and crawls to the top of some stone, w^here if he can 

 find a chink that will receive him, or can creep betwixt two 

 stones, the one lying hollow upon the other, — which, by the 

 way, we also lay so purposely to find them, — he there lurks 

 till his wings be full grown ; and there is your only place to 

 find him, — and from thence doubtless he derives his name : — 

 though, for v.ant of such convenience, he will make shift with 

 the hollow of a bank, or any other place where the wind cannot 

 come to fetch him off. His body is long, and pretty thick, and 

 as broad at the tail almost as in the middle ; his color a very 

 fine brown, ribbed with yellow, and much yellower on tlie belly 

 than the back : he has two or three whisks also at the tag of 

 his tail, and two little horns upon his head : his wings, when 

 full grown, are double, and flat down his back, of the same 

 color but rather darker than his body, and longer than it : 

 though he makes but little use of them, for you shall rarely 

 see him flying, though often swimming and paddling, with seve- 

 ral feet he has under his belly, upon the water, without stir- 

 ring a wing : but the drake will mount steeple-high into the 

 air," though he is to be found upon flags and grass too, and 

 indeed everywhere high and low near the river ; there being so 



