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yellow silk, and a partridge's hackle wrapt twice 

 or thrice under the butt of the wings ; the hook 

 No. 7- This fly may be used with great suc- 

 cess in warm gloomy days, from eleven till two 

 o'clock ; and when the Brown is on the water 

 the fish will refuse every other kind. There 

 cannot be too much said in commendation of 

 this fly, both for its duration, and the extraor- 

 dinary sport it affords the angler. 



Cowdung Fly. 4. 



This fly appears about the same time as the 

 Brown, and continues on the water all the sum- 

 mer months, but the principal time to angle 

 with it is from its first appearance till the end 

 of April. Its wings, which stand upright, are 

 made of a feather from the wings of a landrail, 

 the body of dirty lemon-coloured mohair, and 

 a hackle of the same colour wrapt under the 

 butt of the wings ; the hook No. 8. This fly 

 is chiefly to be used in cold stormy days ; it is 

 seldom seen upon the water unless driven there 

 by high winds. 



Stone Fly. 5. 



In the beginning of April the Stone Fly es- 

 capes from the husk, or case, before its wings 

 are sufficiently grown to enable it to fly, and 

 creeps to crevices in stones, from which circum- 



