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which I may have time enough to do, for you see it rains May- 

 butter. First, for a May-fly, you may make his body with greenish- 

 coloured crewel or willowish colour, darkening it in most places with 

 waxed silk, or ribbed with black hair, or some of them ribbed with 

 silver thread ; and such wings for the colour as you see the fly to 

 have at that season, nay, at that very day on the water. Or you 

 may make the oak-fly with an orange tawny, and black ground, and 

 the brown of a mallard's feather for the wings ; and you are to know, 

 that these two are most excellent flies, that is, the May-fly and the 

 oak-fly. And let me again tell you that you keep as far from the 

 water as you can possibly, whether you fish with a fly or worm, and 



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