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now to tell you next how to make an artificial fly, that will so 

 perfectly resemble him, as to be taken in a rough windy day, 

 when no flies can lie upon the water, nor are to be found 

 about the banks and sides of the river, to a wonder ; and 

 with which you shall certainly kill the best trout and grayling 

 in the river. 



The artificial GREEN-DRAKE, then, is made upon a large 

 hook, the dubbing, camel's hair, bright bear's hair, the soft down 

 that is combed from a hog's bristles, and yellow camlet, well 

 mixed together ; the body long, and ribbed about with green 

 silk, or rather yellow, waxed with green wax ; the whisks of the 

 tail, of the long hairs of sables, or fitchet ; and the wings, of a 

 white-grey feather of a mallard, dyed yellow, which is also to be 

 dyed thus : 



Take the root of a barbary tree, and shave it, and put to it 

 woody viss, with as much alum as a walnut, and boil your 

 feathers in it with rain water ; and they will be of a very fine 

 yellow. 



I have now done with the Green-drake, excepting to tell you, 

 that he is taken at all hours during his season, whilst there is 

 any day upon the sky ; and with a made-fly I once took, ten 

 days after he was absolutely gone, in a cloudy day, after a 

 shower, and in a whistling wind, five-and-thirty very great 

 trout and graylings, between five and eight of the clock in the 

 evening, and had no less than five or six flies, with three good 

 hairs a-piece, taken from me in despite of my heart, besides. 



12. I should now come next to the Stone-fly, but there is 

 another gentleman in my way, that must of necessity come in 

 between, and that is the GREY-DRAKE, which in all shapes and 

 dimensions is perfectly the same with the other, but quite almost 

 of another colour, being of a paler and more livid yellow and 

 green, and ribbed with black quite down his body, with black 

 shining wings, and so diaphanous and tender, cob-web like, that 

 they are of no manner of use for daping ; but come in, and are 

 taken after the Green-drake, and in an artificial fly kill very 

 well ; which fly is thus made, the dubbing of the down of a hog's 

 bristles, and black spaniel's fur, mixed, and ribbed down the 



