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and yellowish body, you may find them flying abroad in 

 Summer evenings in gardens, when some wind is stir- 

 ring, in large rivers chiefly, streams or shade. He will 

 take a small lamprey, or seven-eyes, an eel-brood, either 

 of them about a straw's bigness. 



14. Pike bites best at three in the afternoon, in a 

 clear water, accompanied by a gentle gale, in July, 

 August, September, and October. 



15. Bream, from about sun rising, till eight, in a 

 muddy water, a good gale of wind ; and in ponds, the 

 higher the better, and where the waves are highest, and 

 nearer the middle of the pond, the better; from the end 

 of May, June, July especially, and August. 



16. Roach and Dace all day long; best at the top, 

 at fly, or oak-worm principally, and at all other worms 

 bred on herbs or trees, palmers, caterpillars, &c. in 

 plain rivers or ponds, under water-dock leaves, or under 

 shady trees. 



1 7- Gudgeon from April, and till he have spawned 

 in May, and a little after that, till wasp time, and then 

 to the end of the year, all day long. 



18. Flounder all day in April, May, June, and 

 July. 



