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water happened to be in the middle, he then lies upon the surface of 

 the water like a ship at hull (for his feet are totally useless to him 

 there, and he cannot creep upon the water as the stone-fly can) until 

 his wings have got stiffness to fly with, if by some trout or grayling 

 he be not taken in the interim (which ten to one he is), and then his 

 wings stand high, and closed exact upon his back, like the butterfly, 

 and his motion in flying is the same. His body is, in some, of a 

 paler, in others, of a darker yellow (for they are not all exactly of a 

 colour), ribbed with rows of green, long, slender, and growing sharp 

 towards the tail, at the end of which he has three long small whisks 

 of a very dark colour, almost black, and his tail turns up towards his 

 back like a mallard ; from whence, questionless he has his name of 

 the green-drake. These (as I think I told you before) we commonly 

 dape, or dibble with, and having gathered great store of them into 

 a long draw-box, with holes in the cover to give them air (where also 

 they will continue fresh and vigorous a night or more), we take them 



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