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draw attention to the value of this practice. Juliana 

 Berners recommends it as follows : For baits for 

 great fish keep specially this rule. When ye have 

 taken a great fish undo the maw, and what ye find 

 there make that your bait, for it is best. 



The practical portion of the book concludes with 

 the following list of twelve artificial flies, with 

 directions how to tie them. 



For March two kinds of Dun Fly are given. 



For April the Stone Fly, and another fly for the 

 beginning of May. 



For May the Yellow Fly. The Black Louper. 



For June the Dun Cutte. The Maure Fly. The 

 Tandy Fly. 



For July the Wasp Fly. The Shell Fly. 



For August the Drake Fly. 



The most charming portions of this interesting 

 work are the introductory and the concluding parts ; 

 the latter dealing with the angling morals which the 

 authoress seeks to inculcate. The work indicates 

 throughout a high ideal of sport, and it is evident 

 that the gross-weight and other fishing competitions 

 of present times would have found no favour in her 

 eyes. 



Ye that can angle and fish to your pleasures as 

 this foresaid treatise teacheth and sheweth you, I 

 charge and require you in the name of all noble men 

 that ye fish in no man's severall water : as his pond, 

 stew, or other necessary thing to keep fish in without 

 his license and good will. 



And also if ye shall do in like manner as this 



