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which however success is more probable with 

 this fly, than when they are to be found in 

 such large quantities. They may be used 

 from morning until evening ; and the Trout 

 are so passionately fond of them, that they 

 gorge themselves with their favourite food, 

 and retire to their secret haunts, thereby dis- 

 appointing the most skilful endeavours of the 

 Angler. 



It is probably owing to the short duration 

 of these ilies that the fish are so greedy in \ V 



devouring them, as they are seldom to be 

 found at the expiration of aboutthree weeks v 

 from their first appearance. The wings are 

 made of the feather from the wing of the 

 cuckoo's mate, the goat sucker, or in the 

 absence of the preceding two, from the v ' 



woodcock: the body of lead coloured silk 

 for the lower and middle parts, and a strip 



of black ostrich harl for the thick/part near 



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the shoulders ; round which a Small dark 



