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7. From the sixteenth of this month also to the end of it, we 

 use a BRIGHT BROWN ; the dubbing for which is to be had out 

 of a skinner's lime-pits, and of the hair of an abortive calf, which 

 the lime will turn to be so bright as to shine like gold: for the 

 wings of this fly, the feather of a brown hen is best, which fly is 

 taken till the tenth of April. 



APRIL. 



All the same hackles and flies that were taken in March will 

 be taken in this month also, with this distinction only concerning 

 the flies, that all the browns be lapped with red silk, and the 

 duns with yellow. 



1. To these a small BRIGHT BROWN, made of spaniel's fur, 

 with a light grey wing, in a bright day, and a clear water, is 

 very well taken. 



2. We have too a little DARK BROWN, the dubbing of that 

 colour, and some violet camlet mixed, and the wing, of the grey 

 feather of a mallard. 



3. From the sixth of this month to the tenth, we have also 

 a fly called the VIOLET FLY, made of a dark violet stuff, with 

 the wings of the grey feather of a mallard. 



4. About the twelfth of this month comes in the fly called the 

 WHIRLING DUN, which is taken every day, about the midtime 

 of day, all this month through, and, by fits, from thence to the 

 end of June, and is commonly made of the down of the fox-cub, 

 which is of an ash colour at the roots next the skin, and ribbed 

 about with yellow silk; the wings, of the pale grey feather of a 

 mallard. 



5. There is also a YELLOW DUN, the dubbing of camel's hair, 

 and yellow camlet or wool, mixed, and a white-grey wing. 



6. There is also this month another LITTLE BROWN, besides 

 that mentioned before, made with a very slender body, the 

 dubbing of dark brown and violet camlet, mixed, and a grey 

 wing, which, though the direction for the making be near the 

 other, is yet another fly, and will take when the other will not, 

 especially in a bright day and a clear water. 



