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flies to angle with on the top of the water. Note, by the way, that 

 the fittest season of using these is in a blustering windy day, when 

 the waters are so troubled that the natural fly cannot be seen, or rest 

 upon them. The first is the dun-fly, in March : the body is made of 

 dun wool ; the wings, of the partridge's feathers. The second is 

 another dun-fly : the body of black wool ; and the wings made of 

 the black drake's feathers, and of the feathers under his tail. The 

 third is the stone-fly, in April : the body is made of black wool ; 

 made yellow under the wings and under the tail, and so made with 

 the wings of the drake. The fourth is the ruddy-fly, in the begin- 

 ning of May : the body made of red wool, wrapt about with black 

 silk ; and the feathers are the wings of the drake, with the feathers 

 of a red capon also, which hang dangling on his sides next to the tail. 

 The fifth is the yellow or greenish fly (in May likewise) : the body 

 made of yellow wool : and the wings made of the red cock's hackle 

 or tail. The sixth is the black-fly, in May also : the body made of 

 black wool, and lapped about with the herle of a peacock's tail ; the 

 wings are made of the wings of a brown capon, with his blue feathers 

 in his head. The seventh is the sad yellow-fly, in June : the body 

 is made of black wool, with a yellow list on either side ; and the 

 wings taken ofF the wings of a buzzard, bound with black braked 

 hemp. The eighth is the moorish-fly: made with the body of 

 duskish wool ; and the wings made of the blackish mail of the drake. 

 The ninth is the tawny-fly, good until the middle of June : the body 

 made of tawny wool, the wings made contrary, one against the other, 

 made of the whitish mail of the wild drake. The tenth is the wasp- 

 fly, in July : the body made of black wool, lapped about with yellow 

 silk ; the wings made of the feathers of the drake, or of the buzzard. 

 The eleventh is the shell fly, good in mid- July : the body made of 

 greenish wool, lapped about with the herle of a peacock's tail, and 

 the wings made of the wings of the buzzard. The twelfth is the dark 

 drake-fly, good in August : the body made with black wool, lapped 

 about with black silk ; his wings are made with the mail of the black 

 drake, with a black head. Thus have you a jury of flies, likely to 

 betray and condemn all the trouts in the river. 



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