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names ; some call the fly bred of the water cricket or 

 creeper a May-fly, and some a stone-fly ; some call the 

 cad-bait fly a May, and some call a short fly, of a sad 

 golden green colour, with short brown wings, a May-fly: 

 and I see no reason but all flies bred in May, are pro- 

 perly enough called May-flies. Therefore, except some 

 one that hath skill, would paint them, I can neither 

 well give their names nor describe them, without too 

 much trouble and prolixity; nor, as lalledged, in regard 

 of the variety of soils and rivers, describe the flies that 

 are bred and frequent each : but the angler, as before 

 directed, having found the fly which the fish at present 

 affect, let him make one as like it as possibly he can, 

 in colour, shape, proportion; and for his better imita- 

 tion let him lay the natural fly before him. All this 

 premised and considered, let him go on to make his fly, 

 which according to my own practice I thus advise. 



First, I begin to set on my hook, placing the hair 

 on the inside of its shank, with such coloured silk as I 

 conceive most proper for the fly, beginning at the end 

 of the hook, and when I come to that place which I con- 

 ceive most proportionable for the wings, then I place 

 such coloured feathers there, as I apprehend roost re- 

 semble the wings of the fly, and set the points of the 

 wings towards the head; or else I run the feathers, and 

 those must be stripped from the quill or pen, with part of 

 it still cleaving to the feathers, round the hook, and so 

 make them fast, if I turn the feathers round the hook ; 

 then I clip away those that are upon the back of the 

 hook, that so, if it be possible, the point of the hook 



