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must be long, and ribbed about with green silk, 

 or rather yellow, waxed with green wax, and 

 three long hairs for his tail, from those off a 

 sable's. 



Or, the May-fly may be dubbed after this me- 

 thod. The body of seal's fur, or yellow mohair, 

 a little fox-cub down, and hog's down, or light 

 brown from a turkey carpet, mixed together, 

 warp with green and yellow, pale yellow, or red 

 cock's hackle under the wings, which are to be 

 the same as in the other method of dubbing it. 



As I shall not mention the green-drake when I 

 come to describe other flies taken in the month 

 of May, I will here give you every particular 

 concerning it. He comes on the water the twen- 

 tieth of that month, and is taken all day long, but 

 best from two to four in the evening, and kills most 

 Jishfrom the end of May to the ninth of June, 



mOW TO DYE THE MALLARDS FEATHER 

 YELLOW. 



Take the root of a Barbary tree, and shave it, 

 tmd 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 fine yellow ; or get 

 a little weld and rocou 9 and boil your feathers with 

 them, and it will answer the same purpose. 



