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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 also 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 con- 

 cerning 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 gray 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 

 color, and some violet camlet mixed, and the wing of a gray 

 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 gray 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 mid- 

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

 to the end of June ; and is commonly made of the down of a 

 fox-cub, which is of an ash color at the roots, next the skin, 

 and ribbed about with yellow silk ; the wings of the pale gray 

 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-gray 

 wing. 



6. There is also, this month, another LITTLE BROWN, be- 

 sides that mentioned before ; made with a very slender body, 

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

 gray 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. 



