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From briny waves, their sires' domain, 

 Their native streams cannot detain 

 Cheerily the striplings journey forth, 

 The heirs apparent and lords of both ; 

 But grieve not, angler, to lose such store, 

 They'll never cease to bring thee more. 



Drakes, in their swaddlings, tempt the trout by day, 

 And in the evenings in new dresses play. 

 Browns, beetles, spinners, during day come on 

 Duns, moths, and th' Empress, after day is done. 

 Tribes of busy house flies, and nameless numbers 'bound 

 Rank in the woods the grass the air the ground; 

 And numbers, unconscious, on treacherous waters light, 

 Which, struggling on its surface, tempt the fish to bite. 

 Through this gay month the Empress feeds the trout, 

 Joined by the fairy ere the month be out. 

 Of 'all the viands this rich season brings, 

 These, the trout's choice : whence his perfection springs ; 

 Re-rich his gildings his spotted sides expand- 

 But dire's their havoc, when in true angler's hand. 



44TH. YELLOW BROWN (or Yellow Sally). 28 Sizes vary. 

 Full length, from three-eighths to half an inch or more ; 

 length, three-eighths more or less. Colors altogether yel- 

 low, of paler or deeper shade, except slight touches of brown 

 on the head, shoulders, and body ; eyes, dark or black. 



They commence hatching with the month, and are very 

 numerous to the end of July ; are out on fine days from 

 morning till night. They are a small smart fly ; but, the 

 razor grinder says " they taste bitter, and fish don't like 

 them." 



Hackled and legged with a small canary or yellow oriel's 

 feather ; body, yellow silk ; with a few fibres of yellow 

 mohair, or hair from the hare's ear, for legs. 



45TH. LITTLE FRECKLED DUN. Full length, about 

 three-eighths ; length, rather less ; wings, one quarter and 



(28) "Yellow Sally," of Jackson, Ronalds, and Francis; the last-named 

 authority states that a keeper once gave him the same reason for the fish's aversion 

 to this fly as stated above by the author, this may be assumed to be correct, as I 

 never met with a flyfisher yet who could say that the imitation of this member of 

 the Perlidse family was a good killer. 

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