CHAPTER VIII 



IAT. So, sir, I am now ready for another lesson, 

 so soon as you please to give it me. 



Pise. And I, sir, as ready to give you the 

 best I can. Having 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, where, 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 

 want of such convenience, he will make shift with the hollow of a 



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