The Gompleat ^Angler 



gentleman in my way, that must of necessity come in between, and 

 that is the gray-drake, which in all shapes and dimensions is perfectly 

 the same with the other, but quite almost of another colour, being 

 of a paler and more livid yellow and green, and ribbed with black 

 quite down his body, with black shining wings, and so diaphanous 

 and tender, cob-web like, that they are of no manner of use for 

 daping ; but come in, and are taken after the green-drake, and in an 

 artificial fly kill very well ; which fly is thus made, the dubbing of 

 the down of a hog's bristles, and black spaniel's fur, mixed, and 

 ribbed down the body with black silk, the whisks of the hairs of the 

 beard of a black cat, and the wings of the black-grey feather of a 

 millard. 



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