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one lying hollow upon the other, which, by the way, we also lay 

 so purposely to find them, he there lurks till his wings be full 

 grown, and there is your only place to find him, and from thence 

 doubtless he derives his name ; though, for want of such con- 

 venience, he will make shift with the hollow of a bank, or 

 any other place where the wind cannot come to fetch him off. 

 His body is long, and pretty thick, and as broad at the tail 

 almost as in the middle; his colour a very fine brown, ribbed 

 with yellow, and much yellower on the belly than the back ; he 

 has two or three whisks also at the tag of his tail, and two little 

 horns upon his head ; his wings, when full grown, are double, 

 and flat down his back, of the same colour, but rather darker 

 than his body, and longer than it, though he makes but little 

 use of them ; for you shall rarely see him flying, though often 

 swimming and paddling with several feet he has under his 

 belly, upon the water, without stirring a wing: but the Drake 

 will mount steeple-high into the air, though he is to be found 

 among flags and grass, too, and indeed everywhere high and 

 low, near the river; there being so many of them in their season, 

 as, were they not a very inoffensive insect, would look like a 

 plague; and these drakes, since I forgot to tell you before, I will 

 tell you here, are taken by the fish to that incredible degree, 

 that, upon a calm day, you shall see the still deeps continually 

 all over circles by the fishes rising, who will gorge themselves 

 with those flies, till they purge again out of their gills ; and the 

 trouts are at that time so lusty and strong, that one of eight or 

 ten inches long, will then more struggle, and tug, and more 

 endanger your tackle, than one twice as big in winter; but 

 pardon this digression. 



This STONE-FLY then, we dape or dibble with, as with the 

 DRAKE, but with this difference, that whereas the GREEN- 

 DRAKE is common both to stream and still, and to all hours 

 of the day, we seldom dape with this but in the streams (for in 

 a whistling wind a made-fly in the deep is better), and rarely, 

 but early and late, it not being so proper for the midtime of the 

 clay ; though a great grayling will then take it very well in a 

 sharp stream, and here and there, a trout too, but much better 



